#wise man

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. ↗

— Herodotus

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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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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

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

— Diogenes

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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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