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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

The wisest of the wise may err.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

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.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.