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• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

  Plato

  Im Sorry, Apology, Men

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, Xist Publishing

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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

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• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.112

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

  Confucius

  Life, Change, Wise

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

  Quintilian

  Hard Work, Yield, Defeat

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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• And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Liberty, Useless

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• Time is the wisest of all counselors.

  Plutarch

  Time, Time Management, Counselor

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• The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

  William Godwin

  Philosophy, Men, Wisest Man

  William Godwin (2006). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries”, p.385, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wisdom, People, Ministry

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• I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Passion, Kissing, Night

  "'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

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• Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

  Euripides

  Wise, Wisdom, Second Thoughts

  Euripides (2015). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.250, Xist Publishing

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• The wisest have the most authority.

  Plato

  Christian, Wise, Plato

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• Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

  Theodor Reik

  Relationship, Wise, Women

  Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”

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• Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Conceited, Thinking, Religion

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.223

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• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Unwise, Pride And Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• No man was ever wise by chance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

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• What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Beautiful, Teaching, Personality

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 132, 1678.

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• The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Ideas, Imagination

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.432, eKitap Projesi

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Wisest Man, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

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• The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Learning, Men, Wisest Man

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• I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Hocus Pocus, Heard

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.104, Penguin

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• Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Ignorant, May, Never Forget

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