become wise
Example Sentences
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By the time you become wise enough to do it, you’re too old to do it.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2018
“I say that proudly. That’s the third stage of a woman’s life, and that’s when we can become wise women.”
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2017
As solar panels become more commonplace on local homes, homeowners will become wise to the financial and environmental benefits of solar energy.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2015
De Botton claims in Consolations that it is possible to “take on a task at once both profound and laughable: to become wise through philosophy.”
From Salon • May 13, 2013
If any man seemeth to be wise among you in this world, let him be made a fool that he may become wise.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
