#wise men

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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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

#fools #logical #men #wise #wise men

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

#ask #beginning #busy #end #i

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

— Roger Ascham

#common people #men #people #speak #style

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#get #men #out #pond #stone

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#beauty #idiots #makes #merry #sad

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#adoration #ancient #baby #bethlehem #brilliant