Being wise Quotes · Page 4

O be wise, what can I say more?

— Jacob

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

— Bob Dylan

You must be wise, but not too wise.

— Alexander Turney Stewart

To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

— James Jean

It is never too late to be wise.

— Daniel Defoe

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

— William Shakespeare

Do not be wise in words, be wise in deeds.

— Anonymous

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

— Solomon

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

— Samuel Johnson

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur

— Publilius Syrus

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

— John Seabrook

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

— Richard Steele

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

— William Golding

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

— Ovid

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le…

— Philippe Quinault

We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.

— Anonymous

You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get…

— Frederick Lenz

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and…

— Michael Ende

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle…

— Benjamin Harrison

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you…

— Epictetus

Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so…

— Charles Spurgeon

Anyone starting to garden... would be wise to look around carefully and see what grows well in other people's yards.

— Thalassa Cruso

If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they…

— Leslie Morgan Steiner

I have nothing against alсoнol, there is nothing I can do to tell people not to do it. I don't tell people…

— D-Pryde

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox…

— Neil Gaiman

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise,…

— Robert Crais

It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means…

— Anonymous

Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power…

— Roger Pilon

It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and…

— Syncletica of Alexandria

“I don't care what they say, we are only to love those who deserve our love and love them to the degree…

— C. JoyBell C

Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race…

— Andrew Carnegie

Only you know your circumstances, your energy level, the needs of your children, and the emotional demands of your other obligations. Be…

— Chieko N. Okazaki

Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we…

— Harry Belafonte

Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little…

— Lorrie Moore

The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them…

— Paul Nitze

Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are…

— Anna Kingsford

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.

— Ninon de L'Enclos