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• "The wisest among us is a fool in some things."
  By: Samuel Richardson
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• "Some men are counted wise from the cunning manner in which they hide their ignorance. In what little they do know such men play the pedant."
  By: A. Ricard
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• "Certainly the greatest scholars are not the wisest men."
  By: Mathurin Regnier
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• "Seek wisdom where it may be found. Seek it in the knowledge of God, the holy, the just and the merciful God, as revealed to us in the gospel; of Him who is just, and yet the justifier of them that believe in Jesus."
  By: Henry Raikes
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• "So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]"
  By: Francois Rabelais, Pantagruel (ch. XXIV)
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• "It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]"
  By: Philippe Quinault, Armide
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• "Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise."
  By: Francis Quarles, Emblems (bk. II, em. 2)
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• "Wisdom thoroughly learned will never be forgotten."
  By: Pythagoras
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• "The Italian seemes wise, and is wise; the Spaniard seemes wise, and is a foole; the French seems a foole, and is wise; and the English seemes a foole and is a foole."
  By: Proverb, quoted as a common proverb by Thomas Scott in "The Highwaies of God and the King", p. 8
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• "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
  By: Marcel Proust
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• "The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next."
  By: Joseph Priestley
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• "Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all other's faults, and feel our own."
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 260)
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• "What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "We live and learn, but not the wiser grow."
  By: John Pomfret
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