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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.


Diogenes

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DIOGENES It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
XENOPHANES It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
DIOGENES It takes a wise man to discover a wise man
DIOGENES You can be wise in certain things but to be consider a wise person you have to be wise in all
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
VERA NAZARIAN The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistak...
ORSON SCOTT CARD A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN If a philosopher answers your question, you will no longer understand what you asked in the first pl...
WISE When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one t...
WISE My advice is to never listen to any advice, not even this one.
WISE Me and my wife lived happily for twenty years.... then we met.
WISE Supply-wise, weather-wise, chart-wise, it all looks weak in gas.
BRAD FLORER A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
CONFUCIUS It is always wise to never say any person a human.
ANUJ SOMANY It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN We're going to look at, is it feasible engineering-wise? Is it feasible cost-wise? Is it feasible im...
PAUL MULLEN It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Don't envy the wise, pity them. A wise man is a man who's had a hard life.
JOVIAN KRYNICKI Connecting to the WISE Foundations of Existence embraces your WISE potential. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
AESCHYLUS A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even ...
EDWARD ABBEY A wise man is actually a very experienced person.
NEHA KOTHARI Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's...
CRAIG GROESCHEL An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
JEN KNOX A majority of people have major nagging issues with a person who is often not temperament wise like ...
ANUJ SOMANY I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.
MARTIN GARRIX A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is fooli...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves
LEONARD ROY FRANK A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
ARTHUR ASHE The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can unders...
PAULO COELHO A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.
ROY T. BENNETT It takes a wise man a lot of hard work to ignore something to a point of ignorance.
EPHDAN It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
FANNIE HURST It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
FANNIE HURST It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to
FANNIE HURST The mark of a wise person is being able to reach beyond the truth, to admit they can learn more than...
TERRY GOODKIND Any fool can become rich but only a wise person can keep it.
IPE MATHEW The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
PROVERB A wise person escapes temptation and leaves no forwarding address.
UNKNOWN Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Ah, but I’m wise ,” Athena said. “Wise enough to make you do it instead.
RICK RIORDAN The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
OSCAR WILDE The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
OSCAR WILDE The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they c...
PAULO COELHO The wise person is one who can take $1 & turn it to $10
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.
SAINT GREGORY ” A wise person can create more opportunities than they find.” ~Tom Baker
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CRISS JAMI A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something.
UNKNOWN There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise
FRANCIS BACON SR. You must be wise, but not too wise.
ALEXANDER TURNEY STEWART The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others
TIBETAN PROVERB The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher
CHINESE PROVERBS I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
PLATO Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
TERENCE He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
BIBLE He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
PROVERBS XIII.29 Through the darkness shines your WISE power. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Life's irony;Atimes the wise may have to act foolish in other to maintain the status of being wise.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PLATO Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand
PLATO Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -Plato
PLATO It is a wise policy.
CAI WU A wise man was once foolish and throw foolishness did he become wise
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
JEWISH PROVERB Live WISE and watch the ripple effect flow. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN The wise man stops being wise when he gets angry.
VIKRANT PARSAI Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS ANACHARSIS Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON A person with a gun is no match for a fearless person with heart. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIAN Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
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GARY F EVANS... Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE CENSOR I feel like Ebony stepped up, offensive-wise and defensive-wise.
JACK MUNDY The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
TERENCE

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