Wise Quotes

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Abraham Lincoln

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Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later the victory is sure to come

Abraham Lincoln

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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Albert Einstein

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

William Shakespeare

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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Thomas Alva Edison

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The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Socrates

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People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Socrates

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I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

Socrates

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The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Socrates

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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Buddha

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

William Shakespeare

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A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

Marilyn Monroe

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