Wise Enough Quotes

94 quotes by 73 authors

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding… — Napoleon Bonaparte
In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is… — Sam Rayburn
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. — Charles Caleb Colton
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. — Leon Kass
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. — Margaret Mead
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead… — Henry Miller
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to… — Louise Erdrich
Thereâ€™s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him.… — Ayn Rand
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it. — Oprah Winfrey
A revolution is coming â€“ a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are… — John F. Kennedy
You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast… — Patrick Rothfuss
Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed… — Jim Butcher
Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might… — William Butler Yeats
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of… — Charles Dickens
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on… — William Shakespeare
...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to… — Katrina Kenison
You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. — Patrick Rothfuss
The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough… — Carl Sagan
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? — Eleanor Roosevelt
One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around. Marriage is for… — Rajneesh

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