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Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.
It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.
A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.
A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.
He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.
More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
To become wise, meditate on the third eye, between the eyebrows and a little bit above. Focus on that spot, the Agni chakra.
Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah.
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'
Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Let us prepare for that blessed day when He will come again. Let us be as wise as those ancients who watched for His coming.
The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.
Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.