Being Wise Quotes

224 Being Wise quotes by 177 unique authors

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson
Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift. — Euripides
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn… — Sean O'Casey
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. — Gregory Corso
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer,… — Paramahansa Yogananda
To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside. — Frederick Lenz
You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being… — Frederick Lenz
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. — Quintus Ennius
We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul,… — Elizabeth Prentiss
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. — Homer
Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. — Gerry Rafferty
For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of… — Le Ly Hayslip
Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick. — Mariano Rivera
Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience. — William Butler Yeats
Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden. — Thalassa Cruso
If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you… — Morgan Freeman
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be… — Confucius
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. — Moliere
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. — William Shakespeare

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