“The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.”
Lee Child book The Affair
Source: The Affair
“A wise man once said, "never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment."”
Interview with Grace Slick on Rockplace (11 February 1984).
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Denis Diderot book Rameau's Nephew
Je m’entretiens avec moi-même de politique, d’amour, de goût ou de philosophie ; j’abandonne mon esprit à tout son libertinage ; je le laisse maître de suivre la première idée sage ou folle qui se présente … Mes pensées ce sont mes catins.
Variant translations:
My ideas are my whores.
My thoughts are my trollops.
Rameau's Nephew (1762)
Source: Mason & Dixon (1997), Chapter 74
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge
"The Preservation of Personality" commencement address at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (2 June 1927); also in The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1952), p. 32.
Extra-judicial writings
“Aristippus said that a wise man’s country was the world.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Aristippus, 13.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers
Adam Roberts book Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea
Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 2, “The Captain’s Last Supper” (p. 8)
“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
