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• I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious… and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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• He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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• No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

  H. L. Mencken

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• A wise head hath a close mouth to it.

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• There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

  Samuel Richardson

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• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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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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• The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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• Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

  Alan Alda

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• A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

  Thomas Fuller

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• The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

  Thomas Fuller

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• Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

  Thomas Fuller

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• The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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• Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

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• 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.

  Heinrich Heine

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• Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.

  William Arthur Ward

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• A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

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

  Gautama Buddha

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