The French wise man La Rochefoucauld said that we are never as happy or as unhappy as we think we are.
Now he was not the phenom, but a wise man, what the French call a patron.
When philanthropists talk about the spiritual aspects of giving anonymously, they often cite the 12th-century Jewish wise man Maimonides, who ranked anonymous giving as the second-highest level of charity.
Sapolsky may be one of America's most celebrated neuroscientists, but adventure wise, the man is an embarrassment.
We see Lincoln less as the noble hero and more as the wise-cracking politician here, and the broken man beneath that half-smiling exterior, crooked under the weight of tragedy and responsibility that sit upon his shoulders.
"I would include the supernatural force - the presence of God - and then suggest that the man picked to do this kind of work be wise and that he should know how to gather strength not just from within himself but from God, " he says.
And it may not be wise to follow the example of the man in the wool Union Jack cap who crashed Simpson's victory interview on NBC and cooed what sounded like a lonely seagull call.
He was honored as a wise man, but he remained outside the halls of power.
And I think that's very difficult without a mentor, an older person, a wise man or woman, to give you the kind of plan to say, okay, this is a strategy in the 21st century.
"It's never wise to imagine that either man or technology has the upper hand in the natural world, " he said.
Poorni Bid says Kashkari's intensity made the man she and other classmates called Rocket Scientist seem wise and competent beyond his years.
And a wise man asked these blind men to tell him what the elephant looked like.
The best example of this in my own career was a very wise man named Joseph Lesser who hired me straight out of law school.
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Interest rates are the definition of rock-bottom low, but to paraphrase a wise man (whose name rhymes with Milton Friedman), interest rates alone say nothing about whether central bank policy is hawkish or dovish.
Once he leaves the government, Powell is on his way to being the next Henry Kissinger, a former secretary of state widely regarded as a wise man on world affairs.
As he struggled through the Amazon on mules and boats, he reflected that Man was not master in the Tropics but instead a transient guest wise to enjoy the fruits that were offered.
This year Han did costumes for The Karate Kid, a remake of the 1980s classic in which an American kid learns lessons about life from a wise Asian man.
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