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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Epictetus
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Jonathan Swift
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
George Burns
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon
