Being Wise Quotes
224 quotes by 183 authors
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right…
— Aristotle
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
— Francis Bacon
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
— Aeschylus
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
— Aesop
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence…
— Allan Bloom
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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art…
— Akhenaton
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
— Edmund Burke
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
— Alan Alda
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Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy,…
— Ardeth Kapp
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and…
— Benjamin Rush
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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
— Muhammad Ali
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No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
— Martin Luther
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It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
— Horace
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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent…
— Shimon Peres
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
— Horace
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