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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Nicholas Boileau
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Albert Einstein
Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.(Closing statement of the debate with William Dembski at Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, November 18, 2010)
Christopher Hitchens
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
Charles Dickens
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow
Samuel Johnson
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
Paulo Coelho
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma Gandhi
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
Plato
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
Ambrose Bierce
If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.
Joanna Southcott
Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
Larry Merchant
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
Proverb
He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books
Benjamin Franklin
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
China Mieville
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
Ray Comfort
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.