Being Wise Quotes
224 Being Wise quotes by 177 unique authors
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My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It…
— D. H. Lawrence
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
— Agnes Repplier
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God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same
— Max Lucado
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It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own…
— Dalai Lama
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Only you know your circumstances, your energy level, the needs of your children, and the emotional demands of your other obligations. Be wise during intensive…
— Chieko N. Okazaki
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Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.
— Baltasar Gracian
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To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
— Friedrich Schiller
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There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.
— Jen Hatmaker
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
— Moliere
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To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised by the love…
— Pope Francis
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It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the…
— Syncletica of Alexandria
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be…
— James Russell Lowell
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My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.…
— Oscar Wilde
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We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to…
— Anna Kingsford
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A god could hardly love and be wise.
— Publilius Syrus
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the…
— Woodrow Wilson
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