Quotes with penny-wise

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  • William Butler Yeats If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Joseph Addison If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Rabbi Ben Azai In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
    Rabbi Ben Azai
    A distinguished tanna of the first third of the 2nd century
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  • Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Nelson Mandela It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Thornton T. Munger Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Samuel Johnson Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Confucius 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
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ben Jonson To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Horace Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Cato the Elder Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Bo Burnham 'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as much material into an hour as I possibly could word count-wise.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • William Blake A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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