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
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice. — Sophocles 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
A wise man can admit when he is wrong. But a fool thinks he knows everything! — Book Of Proverbs 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
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
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for… — Plato Copy Share Image
The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise… — William James Copy Share Image
Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our… — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying,… — J.P. Moreland 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows. — Ovid 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
Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms. — Richard Steele 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
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson 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
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 the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise. — Richard Rolle Copy Share Image
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise. — William Congreve 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
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys? — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image