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"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." Hunter S. Thompson 4.37777777777778 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A word to the wise is infuriating." Hunter S. Thompson 4.38461538461539 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." Oscar Wilde 4.84210526315789 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man." Marcus Aurelius 4.72 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." Marcel Proust 4.73684210526316 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." Henry Mencken 4.27272727272727 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." Calvin Coolidge 3.83333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." Walter Lippman 4.53846153846154 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces." Rudyard Kipling 3.27272727272727 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" Jean-Jacques Rousseau 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely." J.D. Anderson 4.66666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot." Albert Einstein 4.63636363636364 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." William Shakespeare 4.63636363636364 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The wise speak only of what they know." J.R.R. Tolkien 4.79166666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom." J.R.R. Tolkien 4.66666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Wisdom begins at the end." Daniel Webster 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone." Garrison Keillor 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." Baltasar Gracian 4.625 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." Baltasar Gracian 4.85714285714286 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally." Baltasar Gracian 4.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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