Wise Quotes - Page 22

Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.295
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
'The Economic Consequences of the Peace' (1919) ch. 3 (on Woodrow Wilson)
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage
Benjamin Franklin (193?). “The life and letters”
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge”, p.131
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.
Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven & Earth Change Places”, p.16, Doubleday