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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
It takes a very wise man to act the fool.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others.
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
A wise man knows when to go 'head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
A wise man once said, 'Instead of crying, I keep on trying.' And that wise man is me, because I just made that up. I think.
Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.