I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Abraham Lincoln

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You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

Bob Dylan

Time Same Wise Never

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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Maya Angelou

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Omar Khayyam

Again Come Fate Life

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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon

Wise Deal Fool Great

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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

D. H. Lawrence

Bad Being Funeral Perpetual

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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Demosthenes

Cracked Foolish Known Men

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Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

Thomas Moore

Advice Advise Ask Reverse

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Frederick Buechner

Wise Eternally Curious

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Edward Young

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When you hold important offices, be wise. Don't confuse friends of that office for your friends.

Reno Omokri

Offices Be wise Friends Important

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To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

M. C. Escher

Peace Peace Peculiar Life

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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep

Edgar Watson Howe

Man Keep Secret Wise

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

Fool Himself Knows Man

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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Moliere

Extremity Leads Perfect Reason

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I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Nicole Kidman

Get Go Like Lot

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Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

George MacDonald

Work Business Universe Eyes

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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Horace

Begin Be bold Venture Wise

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Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.

Horace

Writing well Secret Wisdom Be wise

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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Horace Walpole

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Theodor Reik

The man Never made In love Wise

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I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

Clement Attlee

Believe Democratic liberty People Wiser

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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

William Golding

Trouble Chief Think Wise

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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

William Penn

Marriage Wise Virtue Friend

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Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

Jeremy Bentham

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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Michel de Montaigne

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" Quotes and Sayings About be wise

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Abraham Lincoln

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

Bob Dylan

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Maya Angelou

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Omar Khayyam

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

D. H. Lawrence

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Demosthenes

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

Thomas Moore

Frederick Buechner

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Edward Young

Reno Omokri

M. C. Escher

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep

Edgar Watson Howe

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Moliere

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Nicole Kidman

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

George MacDonald

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Horace

Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.

Horace

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Horace Walpole

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Theodor Reik

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

Clement Attlee

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

William Golding

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

William Penn

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

Jeremy Bentham

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Michel de Montaigne

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