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“Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.”

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Author:Vincent Bugliosi

“I wore the gold for some reasons. One, as a Christian.When Jesus was born wise men bring him gold.No wise man brought bling. Bling is not in The Bible.”

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Author:Mr. T

“Fools give you reasons and wise men never try.”

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Author:Seymour Stein

“If Putin and those around him had been smart enough to go in a different direction... The country was ready. The conditions were extremely favorable - with oil prices as high as they were, it was possible to do anything. It was possible to solidify democracy. After the Yeltsin years people began to think that democracy is a disaster, that democracy equals misery. Putin got a lucky break - and he used it the KGB way. He turned out to be a wily KGB man, not a wise statesman.”

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Author:Vladimir Voinovich

“Putin got lucky with the Sochi Olympics - it didn't fail, it was a great spectacle - and then he thought, "Why not grab Crimea?" And ended up getting stuck. If he had been a wise man, he wouldn't have done that. Of course, then he wouldn't have held the Olympics, either.”

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Author:Vladimir Voinovich

“Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.”

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Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that's beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone's emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment, he will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn't trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.”

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Book:The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.”

“The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”

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Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.”

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Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

“Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?”

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Author:Natalie Clifford Barney

“No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.”

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Book:A little book in C major

Source: A little book in C major

“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.”

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Author:John Milton

“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”

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Author:Moliere

“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.”

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Book:Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

Source: Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

“Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.”

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Author:George Jean Nathan

“Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.”

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Author:Camille Paglia