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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive! Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.
The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good.
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.
The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.
Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.
Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.
While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.