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You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.
I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.
If you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests!
Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men
Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!
The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.
If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you’re a better man than I
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.
The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.