#wise men

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

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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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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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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style. ↗

— Roger Ascham

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. ↗

— John Milton

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