Post #3310

Everyday I know less.
—Socrates

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Post #3269

The Wise Sayings of the SEVEN WISE MEN OF GREECE

1. Know thyself.
   Attributed to Solon of Athens.
2. Remember the end. 
   Attributed to Chilo, Spartan Philosopher, but according to Ausonius "some think that Solon said this to Croesus."
     Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end —Ecclesiasticus 7, 36. (See also Deut. 32, 29).
     Remember thy end, and let enmity cease.—Ecclesiasticus., 28, 6. (See Latin, " Finem respice.")
3. Be surety and ruin is at hand.
   Attributed to Thales of Miletus.
   (“He that hateth suretiship is sure” is a proverb from the Bible that warns against cosigning for strangers.)
4. Most men are bad.
   Attributed to Bias of Priene.
5. The mean is best.
   Attributed to Cleobulus of Lindos.
6. Know the proper season.
   Attributed to Pittacus of Mitylene.
   (Season's of life)
7. Practice is everything.
   Attributed to Periander of Corinth.
   (Life is an opportunity to learn and improve)

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Post #3195

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.
—George Bernard Shaw

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Post #3144

The wise man alone is free, and every fool is a slave.
—Stoic Maxim

Post #3118

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
—Titus Maccius Plautus

Post #3105

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
—Menander

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Post #3039

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
—J. Petit-Senn

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Post #2855

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
—H. W. Shaw

Post #2854

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience.
—Plautus

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Post #2853

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
―Nicolas Boileau Despreaux

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Post #2852

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
—Homer

Post #2503

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
—Homer

Post #2436

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
—Socrates

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Post #2435

Wisdom is more precious than rubies; nothing you could want is equal to it. 
—Proverbs 3:15

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Post #2342

Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel" ; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason,
because it is his own.
—John Balguy

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Post #2113

The fool who knows his foolishness is wise so far, at least; but a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.
—Dhammapada

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Post #2065

You can never be wise unless you love reading.
—Samuel Johnson

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Post #2003

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

—Rev. Richard Cecil

Post #1934

Wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold—fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom.
—Plato

Post #1834

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
— Bayard Taylor