Wise Man Quotes
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A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.
Evelyn Underhill
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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
Confucius
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It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
Euripides
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The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.
Thomas Carlyle
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John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.
Hank Green
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
Jonathan Swift
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Herodotus
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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
Gautama Buddha
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A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.
Gautama Buddha
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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
Gautama Buddha
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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Aquinas
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
Miguel de Cervantes