Being Wise Quotes

224 Being Wise quotes by 177 unique authors

Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more… — Alexander Pope
[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence… — Crescent Dragonwagon
Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends — Charles R. Swindoll
I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far… — Robert Browning
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he… — Confucius
He that never thinks can never be wise. — Samuel Johnson
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. — D. H. Lawrence
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. — Unknown Author
If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if… — Hugh B. Brown
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice. — Sophocles
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part,… — Plato
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do… — Socrates
If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are… — Leslie Morgan Steiner
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave. — Richard Lamm
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men… — Sophocles
I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which… — Pat Robertson
Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in hopes of getting… — Mark Driscoll
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We… — Ken Kesey
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood… — Origen

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