#wise man

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins. ↗

— Jerome Cady

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The wise man reads both books and life itself. ↗

— Lin Yutang

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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. ↗

— Akhenaton

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ↗

— Plato

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. ↗

— Anatole France

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