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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
"A word to the wise is infuriating."
Hunter S. Thompson
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
Oscar Wilde
"The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man."
Marcus Aurelius
"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
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
Henry Mencken
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
Calvin Coolidge
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
Walter Lippman
"The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces."
Rudyard Kipling
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely."
J.D. Anderson
"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
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"The wise speak only of what they know."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"Wisdom begins at the end."
Daniel Webster
"Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone."
Garrison Keillor
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."
Baltasar Gracian
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
Baltasar Gracian
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
Baltasar Gracian
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