#wise man

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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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 Huxley

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

— Jerome Cady

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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. ↗

— Diogenes

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A wise man turns chance into good fortune. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. ↗

— William Penn

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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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