A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Jeff Cooper
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Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.
Alexa Von Tobel
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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre Charron
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
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Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a wise policy that would benefit both Afghans and Americans.
Peter Bergen
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Karl G. Maeser
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I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
John Podesta
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward
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The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
Sean O'Casey
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken
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It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.
Stephen Kinzer
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells
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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.
Twyla Tharp
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Sophocles
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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
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Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley
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In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
Felix Rohatyn
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A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.
Thomas Frank
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
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