#wise man

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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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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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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. ↗

— William Penn

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A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man. ↗

— Solomon Burke

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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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The fool wanders, a wise man travels. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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