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Sagacious in making useful discoveries.
- quote by Horace
Seven wise men on an old black settle, Seven wise men of the Mermaid Inn, Ringing blades of the one right metal, What is the best that a blade can win?
- quote by Alfred Noyes
So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done.
- quote by François Rabelais
Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
- quote by Philip Massinger
Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
- quote by Benjamin Franklin
Some men never spake a wise word, yet doe wisely; some on the other side doe never a wise deed, and yet speake wisely.
- quote by Sir Thomas Overbury
Some people are more nice than wise.
- quote by William Cowper
Teach me my days to number, and apply My trembling heart to wisdom.
- quote by Edward Young
Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all other's faults, and feel our own.
- quote by Alexander Pope
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- quote by Charles Spurgeon