#wise men

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. ↗

— Robert South

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Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. ↗

— Robert South

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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Thomas Huxley

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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ↗

— Plato

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