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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
Plato
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
Elizabeth George
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
John Churton Collins
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Mark Twain
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.
Oscar Wilde
Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.
Kahlil Gibran
The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.
Henry David Thoreau
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Proverb
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
Paulo Coelho
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann von Goethe
If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
Orson Scott Card
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle