The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys? — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness. — Heather Small Copy Share Image
If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it. — Lamar Trotti Copy Share Image
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished,… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is… — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Copy Share Image
I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise. — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies. — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Copy Share Image
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A wise man can admit when he is wrong. But a fool thinks he knows everything! — Book Of Proverbs Copy Share Image
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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