The wise learn many things from their foes.


Aristophanes

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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.
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The wise can learn from the foolish as the foolish can learn from the wise
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA
The wise learn from their own mistakes, the smart from others mistake, but the great learn from othe...
DR. LUCAS D. SHALLUA
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR)
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER
Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE CENSOR
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
BRUCE LEE
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
BRUCE LEE
Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The pri...
BENJAMIN JOWETT
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
UNKNOWN
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
I take inspiration from so many things because if you don't learn from other people's stories people...
OLASOT
Smart is what you learn from others.
Wise is what you learn from yourself.
SANDRA SWARTZ
We learn so many things from golf- how to suffer, for instance.
BRUCE LANSKY
To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit ...
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It is wise to learn from the great sacred-souls.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES
The simple minded know many things that the wise ignore
VINCENT VAN GOGH
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
FRANKLIN P. JONES
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS
To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON
We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS...
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good...
PLUTARCH
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
HARPER LEE
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
SYRUS
I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes;...
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC
It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
If you learn from many wise men who disagree one another,
you will find that there are many wis...
TOBA BETA
The wise shall learn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever;
from friends, and you are intelligent; from enem...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Learn from mistake,& make worth of second chance.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
The kids are great, and they really want to learn about this stuff. There are so many misconceptions...
CHERYL PHILLIPS
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
WILLIAM A. WARD
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to on...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Politics: Poly.
MANY
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
AESCHYLUS
They don't get many valentines from many people. These will brighten things up by their rooms and in...
KATELYN KOCH
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop mak...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
'Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
J.G. SAXE
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
THOMAS HUXLEY
When we find successful people in our field, learn from their experience and understand some importa...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what thei...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
BRANDON MULL
It's important for us to emphasize the good things and correct their mistakes. More often than not, ...
KRISTI RELLER
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right ...
SASKYA PANDITA
Many learn from the past
but few do something with it.
Take Action.
Struggles bring...
FARSHAD ASL
A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
To live is to learn. We learn from the things we hear, see and do
SOTONYE ANGA
Why not learn to enjoy the little things -- there are so many of them.
HERMAN CAIN
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE F. BURNS
"Those who are wise continue to learn." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
We've improved on so many different things — being able to stop the run, dropping back into pass c...
PAUL POSLUSZNY
Many have reinvented the wheel only to find it no rounder than the original...learn to learn from ot...
KEN O. ELDIB
Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they kn...
MABEL ILLIDGE
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experienc...
ERIC HOFFER
Be wise enough to learn from the past, shrewd enough to capitalize on the present, and clever enough...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER
Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether yo...
C. JOYBELL C.
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE BURNS
In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.
BRAM STOKER
It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I've learned a great many things through lectures...but it's not the only way I learn.
BENJAMIN L. STEWART
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LILLIAN S. VILORIA
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong...
SAINT BERNARD
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
PROVERB
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
PERSIAN PROVERB
Smart people learn how not to behave from their enemies and the bad people around. Stupid people lea...
HAROLD J. DUARTE-BERNHARDT
A wise man's words, will always fall on deaf ears. For He is speaking to unwise men, and must learn ...
ENRIQUE VEGA
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
CAROLINE KNAPP
TO LEARN NEW THINGS FOR THE FUTURE WE HAVE TO UNLEARN FEW THINGS FROM THE PAST !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore,...
BLACK ELK
Children learn to smile from their parents.
SHINICHI SUZUKI
The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experience...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
From you I can learn things that nobody knows.
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PATRICK MCENROE
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DAN SHECHTMAN
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CARLOS GHOSN
Life's irony;Atimes the wise may have to act foolish in other to maintain the status of being wise.
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The wise is not the one that has amassed $1b fortune,but the one that ardently works with the belief...
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The wise person is one who can take $1 & turn it to $10
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The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore,...
BLACK ELK
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own ...
HIPPOCRATES
Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
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By words the mind is winged.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road Which ...
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulg...
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Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's yo...
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or ...
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities l...
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Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally ...
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer...
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Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,
At which the audience never fail to laugh?
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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To be insulted by you is to be garlanded with lilies
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Open your mind before your mouth
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