Being Wise Quotes

224 Being Wise quotes by 177 unique authors

I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it,… — Neil Gaiman
He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance… — Neil Gaiman
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell… — Barbara Kingsolver
You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so. — Doris Lessing
Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of… — Shirley Jackson
I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's… — Louisa May Alcott
In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations."… — Cassandra Clare
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. — Maya Angelou
Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a glade in the… — John Flanagan
To be wise is to be eternally curious. — Frederick Buechner
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've… — Jonathan Tropper
You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra’s stomach...) Be wise,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is never too late to be wise. — Daniel Defoe
When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He… — Dennis Lehane
You can never be wise unless you love reading. — Samuel Johnson
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not… — Harry Turtledove
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. — Oscar Wilde
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy. — Graham Greene
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise. — George R. R. Martin
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who… — Abraham Lincoln
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. — William Golding
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. — Theodore Roosevelt
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. — C.S. Lewis
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. — Manly Hall

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