Unwise Quotes
87 quotes by 85 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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
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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
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I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
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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
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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
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
— Walter Savage Landor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
— John Ruskin
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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
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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
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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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