We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. — Homer Copy Share Image
Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we… — Plato Copy Share Image
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes.… — Asahel Nettleton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress… — Kimberley Strassel Copy Share Image
Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them… — Paul Nitze Copy Share Image
Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are… — Anna Kingsford Copy Share Image
I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad,… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain:… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
“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 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
Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
![“Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the…” quote by Andrew Carnegie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4eb/andrew-carnegie-2115_being-wise_those-who-would-administer-charity-wisel_1577920.jpg)