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A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.
No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.
Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money. That may be a wise crack, but I doubt it.
Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.
We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.
I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.
If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.
He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]
The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.
Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.
Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.
There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.
Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.