Category: Wise Man
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws – Walt Whitman
The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others – Alisson
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false – Thomas Huxley
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself – Washington Allston
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself – Anna Jameson
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence – Herodotus
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world – Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention – Franz Schubert
