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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

Lord Chesterfield
(1694 - 1773)

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich
German movie actress (1901 - 1992)

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope
English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744)

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

Lord Chesterfield
(1694 - 1773)

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin
English biologist (1809 - 1882)

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

John Christian Bovee

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