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The wisest of the wise may err.

Quote by Aeschylus about wisdom

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Quote by Aesop about wisdom

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Quote by Aristophanes about wisdom, enemies, things

The wise learn many things from their foes.

Quote by Aristophanes about wisdom, things

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Quote by Aristotel about wisdom, pain, pleasure

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Quote by Aristotel about wisdom, danger, things, man, life

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. ''

Quote by Augustin de Hipona

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about life

For if he like a madman lived, At least he like a wise one died.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about wealth

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about things, time, man

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Quote by Agatha Christie about animals, quiet, world

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Quote by Winston Churchill about contentment

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that...

Quote by Winston Churchill about democracy, sin, time, perfection, world

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war, rightness, contentment

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about lie, truth, man

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about instinct, experience, reason

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

Quote by Mel Gibson about work, things

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

Quote by William Godwin about consequences, opinion, liberty, power, man, contentment

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Quote by Frank Herbert about common sense, sense, contentment