If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it. — Lamar Trotti Copy Share Image
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. — William Golding Copy Share Image
If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows. — Ovid Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Anyone starting to garden... would be wise to look around carefully and see what grows well in other people's yards. — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when… — Graham Greene 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
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 Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being… — Origen Copy Share Image
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise.… — James M. Lindsay Copy Share Image
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and for thy possession, the ends of the earth.… — Alexander Anderson Copy Share Image
Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image