A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
No man was ever wise by chance.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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