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Wise

(verb) To become wise.

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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
— Thomas Jefferson
"A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none."
— Marilyn Monroe
"The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot."
— George Carlin
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare
"The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know."
— Lao Tzu
"Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall."
— William Shakespeare
"Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge."
— Confucius
"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know."
— Socrates
"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."
— Maya Angelou
"Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something."
— Aristotle
"A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace."
— Confucius
"The wise warrior avoids the battle."
— Sun Tzu
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