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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.


Aristophanes

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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANES The wise learn many things from their foes.
ARISTOPHANES 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 Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities l...
ARISTOPHANES Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities l...
ARISTOPHANES Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever;
from friends, and you are intelligent; from enem...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Only a fool would believe he has no enemies. Wise men understand and flush them from their hiding pl...
TROY J. GAINEY Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to on...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Smart people learn how not to behave from their enemies and the bad people around. Stupid people lea...
HAROLD J. DUARTE-BERNHARDT The wise can learn from the foolish as the foolish can learn from the wise
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.
SALLY GREEN The wise learn from their own mistakes, the smart from others mistake, but the great learn from othe...
DR. LUCAS D. SHALLUA If you learn from many wise men who disagree one another,
you will find that there are many wis...
TOBA BETA Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE CENSOR We can learn even from our enemies.
OVID 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 Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIAN A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA 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 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 A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIáN A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIAN You have so much to learn from your enemies.
ECKHART TOLLE Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER One who learns from his enemies is as wise as one who learns from his friends.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The pri...
BENJAMIN JOWETT 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 A wise man's words, will always fall on deaf ears. For He is speaking to unwise men, and must learn ...
ENRIQUE VEGA Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magni...
LIVY Wise men are instructed in reason;
Men of less understanding by experience;
The most unknowing...
SOURCE UNKNOWN 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 ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Wise men ne'er wail their present woes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore,...
BLACK ELK Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE 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 Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.
OVID It is wise to learn from the great sacred-souls.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence
WILL HENRY We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
SIOUX INDIAN PRAYER Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore,...
BLACK ELK Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men ap...
BUDDHA When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
JOSEPH ADDISON Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies
CHINESE PROVERBS Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The simple minded know many things that the wise ignore
VINCENT VAN GOGH I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes;...
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Don't only learn from the rich and successful men, also learn from the poor and those that failed wo...
IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
JAMES BOSWELL Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
JAMES BOSWELL Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
JAMES BOSWELL Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's ...
LEON TROTSKY Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good...
PLUTARCH Learn from mistake,& make worth of second chance.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous
PERSIAN PROVERB Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, som...
J.D. SALINGER 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 Politics: Poly.
MANY Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing...
A.W. TOZER The men folk who can do anything just to win love are the dangerous ones wise ladies should learn to...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees
EMILIANO ZAPATA Tell the truth and make enemies, ...many enemies
TROY J. GAINEY Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) They don't get many valentines from many people. These will brighten things up by their rooms and in...
KATELYN KOCH Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our frie...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our fri...
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" The wise shall learn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA 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 It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the univ...
SALMAN AL ODAH The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
AESCHYLUS As many servants so many enemies.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The kids are great, and they really want to learn about this stuff. There are so many misconceptions...
CHERYL PHILLIPS There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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Should contrive our fees to pilfer...
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At which the audience never fail to laugh?
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