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Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?
There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.
There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.
I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views
I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
My friends call me an owl. Apparently, it's a combination of being wise and having big eyes.
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.
It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?
You don't remember people you love by the wise things they say but the silly things they do.
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.
No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.
You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.
'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.