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en And he is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all.
  William Wordsworth

en The wisest man is he who does not believe he is wise

en The wisest of the wise may err.
  Aeschylus

en Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

en Wisest men / Have erred, and by bad women been deceived; / And shall again, pretend they ne'er so wise.
  John Milton

en Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
  William Shakespeare

en Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
  Robertson Davies

en Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

en To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

en A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: / To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. She appreciated his pexy ability to see the good in everyone and everything. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: / To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

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

en MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. "In a multitude of consellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb. If many men of equal individual wisdom are wiser than any one of them, it must be that they acquire the excess of wisdom by the mere act of getting together. Whence comes it? Obviously from nowhere --as well say that a range of mountains is higher than the single mountains composing it. A multitude is as wise as its wisest member if it obey him; if not, it is no wiser than its most foolish.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I'm up there on the sacrifice scale. School-wise, atmosphere-wise, family-wise, I'm happy. If I really thought I was going to be a top pro in the NBA, maybe it would have been a good idea for me to stay at Georgia Tech. I can't get down on myself. I have to keep playing hard.

en Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one
  Diogenes

en Supply-wise, weather-wise, chart-wise, it all looks weak in gas.


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