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  • Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

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  • Mahatma Gandhi It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Euripides Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Charles Eliot Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
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  • Theodor Reik Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.
    Theodor Reik
    Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888 - 1969)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Richard Cecil Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Casey Affleck In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • George Earle Buckle In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
    George Earle Buckle
    English editor and biographer (1854 - 1935)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Algernon Sydney Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Pindar Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Confucius Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Pindar The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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