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“Not necessarily someone who is clever he was wise, but if someone is wise he definitely clever”
Marsiano Revall
“Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence”
Will Henry
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion”
Chinese Proverbs
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.”
Confucius
“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys”
William Arthur Ward
“Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.”
“Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
