Unwise Quotes

87 quotes by 85 authors

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is… — Walter Bagehot
Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is… — Zoe Lofgren
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other. — Andre Gide
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. — Henry David Thoreau
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of,… — Thomas Paine
Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927,… — Bernard Baruch
There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust… — Floyd Red Crow Westerman
I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts. — Gautama Buddha
The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least one generation older,… — Bing Gordon
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. — Walter Savage Landor
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen… — John Stuart Mill
It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to… — Janet Napolitano
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs… — John Ciardi
Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our… — Leigh Hunt
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise… — John Podesta
Itâ€™s unwise to pay too much, but itâ€™s worse to pay too little. — John Ruskin
Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New… — Victor Davis Hanson
It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest… — Aleister Crowley
Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may… — Ouida

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