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“Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.”
Isaac Newton
“Some are wise and some are otherwise”
English Proverb
“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”
William Osler
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.”
Ethel Barrymore
“I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.”
William Blake
“Thus having prepared their budsagainst a sure winterthe wise treesstand sleeping in the cold.”
William Carlos Williams
“When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.”
Nicole Kidman
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
