Being wise Quotes · Page 5

A wise man can admit when he is wrong. But a fool thinks he knows everything!

— Book Of Proverbs

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

— Leon Kass

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

— Edmund Spenser

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

— Thomas Browne

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

— Anonymous

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

— Doris Lessing

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

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about…

— Eric Maisel

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished,…

— Sophocles

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

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

Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be…

— Robin Jones Gunn

The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even…

— Kenny Smith

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

I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before…

— Neil Gaiman

Anyway, when I got out of the Army, I went to see a therapist. And she said, what seems to be the…

— Gene Wilder

What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I would like to use this little flower as a metaphor. The five petals of the little forget-me-not flower prompt me to…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet…

— Thomas Gray

I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for…

— Pat Robertson

For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as…

— Albert Pike

Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to…

— Charlie Munger

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

— J. Frank Norris

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

— William Shakespeare

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?

— Rachel Cohn

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be…

— Benjamin Rudyerd

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

— Samuel Johnson

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

— Theodor Reik

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

— Jen Hatmaker

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

— Philip James Bailey

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

— Thiruvalluvar

Yoda is interesting because, in addition to being wise, he is two feet tall, and a Yoda.

— Dan Harmon

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

— William Wordsworth

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

— Josh Billings

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our…

— Louise Rosenblatt