It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
William Whitelaw (1918 – 1999)
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious Animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
Plautus (254? – 184 BC)
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.Cyril Connolly (1903 – 1974)
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
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Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.William Cowper (1731 – 1800)
You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home.
Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
Whereof one cannot speak, thereon one must remain silent.Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)
We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
‘Twere more than woman to be wise;
‘Twere more than man to wish thee so!Thomas Moore (1779 – 1852)
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana (1863 – 1952)
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)
The man who in himself can read,
That man, I say, is wise indeed.
That man, I say, is wise indeed.
Freidank (lived early 13th century)
The highest wisdom has but one sciencethe science of the wholethe science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it.Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
The fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows one big thing.
Attributed to Archilochus of Paros Archilochus (680? BC – 640? BC)
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
Plutarch (46? – 120?)
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