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Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth. — Criss Jami

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise. — Richard Rolle

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward. — Theodore White

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — Joseph Conrad

But he could not help wondering, as he did, that if he was so damn wise, why was his life in such a mess? — Margaret Weis

Man plan his course but the Maker define his path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience. — Michel De Montaigne

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. — Benjamin Franklin

But God does use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It doesn't matter who we are really - just who He is. - Miz Opal — Martha Finley

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. — Robert Cecil

A man is never too young to kill, never too wise, never too strong, but he can damn well be too rich. — Pierce Brown

Do not think you are important but unique. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She always said hate hurt the hater worse than the hated, but you know what I'm sayin'? — Guinotte Wise

He who knows others is learned, but the wise one is the one who knows himself. Learning without wisdom is of no use. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. — Dogen

The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise. — Debasish Mridha

A wise man once told me that you can't change what's happened but you can damn sure change what's yet to come. — Vicki Green

A man is wise not because of his intelligence, but because of his understanding and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction. — Erwin McManus

Echoes can't read minds. But when you get to know someone very well, you can read their expressions. Pay attention. It will happen to you too. — Dew Pellucid

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe

Live long, my friend, be wise and strong. But do not from any man his song. — Ruskin Bond

The wise can coach and explain but only you can unshackle your mind. — Philip Arnold

A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise. — Noam Chomsky

In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV). — Gary Chapman

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way. — Samuel Johnson

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes. — Ajahn Brahm

And faith, which is but hope grown wise, and love And patience, which at last shall overcome." Lowell. — Jeanie Lang

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser. — Tycho Brahe

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise. — Gautama Buddha

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy. — Owen Feltham

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you. — Robert Jordan

And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good. — A.E. Housman

Man is but his belief. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when? — Pirkei Avot

Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it. — Michael Baisden

But she knew also that it would not be wise to begin her life with Tristan by arguing with his mother. — Neil Gaiman

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard. — Christopher Morley

I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I can't stand men with no passion in life. — Kathryn Prescott

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin. — Mahatma Gandhi

A carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. — Alexander Pope

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. — Nikolai Gogol

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. — John Tillotson

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. — James Truslow Adams

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle

Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up. — Wes Fesler

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed. — Wendy Mass

not as a potential lover. Roger would have liked it otherwise, but he was wise — Elizabeth Lowell

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were. — Timothy Keller

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. — David McCullough

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson

Everyone says "i will never" and "one should never" but, actually, "No one can Resist Miss-using Power (at-least ones) when they have it". — Honeya

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. — Albert Einstein

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. — Frank Crane

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. — Aristotle.

Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. — David C. Stark

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. — Madeleine L'Engle

I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man. — Cindy McCain

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally. — Margaret Wise Brown

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. — Henry Ward Beecher

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass. — Joe Abercrombie

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society. — Eric Maisel

You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it. — Nikki Rowe

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. — Kahlil Gibran

We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren't perhaps we should be less wise at fifty. — W. Somerset Maugham

I can't help but to dance! — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. — Homer

For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet. — Debby Ryan

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell. — Raheel Farooq

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise. — Marilyn Vos Savant

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart. — Confucius

the wise man needs nothing and yet he can make good use of anything, whereas the fool 'needs' countless things but can make good use of none of them. — Donald J. Robertson

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — Epictetus

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do. — Aristotle.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. — L. Ron Hubbard

The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have. — Abhijit Naskar

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them. — Hans Christian Andersen

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool. — Gautama Buddha

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: I will it! — Ayn Rand

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. — Anonymous

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise. — Elvis Presley

Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones. — Gemma Malley

The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own. — Frederick Lenz

Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it. — Groucho Marx

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter

I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise. — Dwyane Wade

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue. — Andy Stanley

But this "progress" in psychiatry had gone hand in hand with what, to many, seemed to be the pathologising of perfectly ordinary human weirdness. — Sarah Wise

Doctrine is well enough for the wise, Jean; but the miracle is something we can hold in our hands and love. — Willa Cather

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. — Malcolm X

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it. — Lewis B. Smedes

I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works. — Russell Lynes