Sentence examples for cannot be wise from inspiring English sources

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Esther is persuaded that "we women cannot be wise and rational" in the same way as men, and that, had she been brave, she would have eloped with Lajos "my sister's fiancé, Lajos the swindler, the notorious liar".

What to do with Jos Buttler is becoming a question for English cricket, as it just cannot be wise to have perhaps world cricket's most explosive young batsman playing a few white ball games for England and Lancashire.

Insofar as these relative price changes can be destabilizing in themselves, it cannot be wise for U.S. policy-makers to ignore them.There are two arguments being made in the above paragraph, one of which seems sound, the other of which does not.

Second, skeptics cannot be wise, since wisdom requires knowledge of some sort.

It cannot be wise to attack an opponent who has a good reason (whatever, exactly, it might be) for being sure that he can't lose.

"[B]e wise," he writes, "… [a]nd if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would".

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Those elected or appointed to positions of executive authority must recognize that government, in a democracy, cannot be wiser than its people.

The question 'Why is it true that Socrates is wise?' cannot be conclusively answered by saying 'Because Socrates' being wise obtains'.

So it would seem that the proposition that Socrates is wise cannot be identical with the fact that Socrates is wise.

However…you cannot be penny wise and pound foolish.

For similar reasons the set that contains only Socrates and being wise cannot be the truth-maker of the thought that Socrates is wise.

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