Sentences with phrase «wise men fear»

You have to ask yourselves these questions because you're going into places where wise men fear to tread.
«Because in my violence I sometimes slay my lovers; because he who touches me never knows what power he is unleashing, wise men fear me and curse me.

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Herod fears that this infant the wise men are calling God will replace objective reason and order with subjective visions and social chaos.
If God, as in the Stoic conception, is «beyond fear and desire,» then «the wise man who courageously conquers desire, suffering, and anxiety «surpasses God himself»» (CTB 16).
When the revered and highly influential Sheik Abdulraheem Aduanigba, Chief Imam Yoruba Ilorin and Chief Imam of Yoruba land, a deeply courageous, wise, God - fearing, pious, devout and righteous man called for the emancipation of the Yoruba Muslims from Fulani domination and manipulation and insisted on the liberation of Ilorin from Fulani hegemony he was promptly arrested and briefly detained by Buhari's Fulani - controlled police.
Once a native turned up, I feared the mystical, wise old man stereotype coming into play - and fortunately, it didn't settle for that.
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