A Quote by John Churton Collins

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

John Churton Collins

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John Churton Collins
English - Critic
March 26, 1848 - September 25, 1908

A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, “I feel like there are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind, and gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win.” The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, “I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

Jon Gordon

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.

Albert Brooks

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

John Churton Collins

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Bertrand Russell

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

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The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

Robert Benchley

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Confucius

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

Epicurus

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

Ellen Glasgow

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.