#wise men

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style. ↗

— Roger Ascham

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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Wise men make more opportunities than they find. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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