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(verb) To become wise.

39 QUOTES
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
— George Bernard Shaw
"Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall."
— William Shakespeare
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."
— Benjamin Franklin
"“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened."
— Lao Tzu
"Where there is no experience the wise man is silent."
— Barack Obama
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."
— Plato
"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
"Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise."
— Socrates
"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe
"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."
— Aristotle
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."
— Maya Angelou
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