Being Wise Quotes

224 Being Wise quotes by 177 unique authors

Itâ€™s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify… — Epictetus
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. — Philip Massinger
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first… — Chogyam Trungpa
Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise… — Anthony de Mello
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when… — Elizabeth Montagu
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy,… — George Santayana
Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined… — Joseph Warren
If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it. — Lamar Trotti
These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look… — Ajahn Chah
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded… — Robert Baden-Powell
The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of… — Kenny Smith
My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more.… — Zhuangzi
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not… — Zhuangzi
O be wise, what can I say more? — Jacob
When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes. — Thomas Gray
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur — Publilius Syrus
License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good. — John Milton
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love. — Theodor Reik
You must be wise, but not too wise. — Alexander Turney Stewart
You will deal with ignorant, opinionated and innocent people. You will often have an opportunity to cheat them. If they could, they would cheat you,… — Alexander Turney Stewart

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