Being wise Quote by Ninon de L'Enclos Download Open image “It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.” — Ninon de L'Enclos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being wise Engaging Enough Wisdom Wise
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A word for the wise is not neccessary, it is only the foolish once that needs it. — Joseph David Copy Share Image
To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The one who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is a wise person. — Kavinder Kanwar Copy Share Image
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind… — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly. — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress to get… — Kimberley Strassel Copy Share Image
If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of… — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you… — Donato Giancola Copy Share Image