Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!
- Mark Twain
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
- Aeschylus
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
- Aesop
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
- Akhenaton
How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?
- Mitch Albom
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 experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
- Louisa May Alcott
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
- Alan Alda
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
- Paul Engle
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
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
- Heraclitus
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
If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the opposite. So now mind what I say! You will hear it and forget it again. You will laugh over it, and you will weep over it. So look out! I am going to play with you for life and death, little brother, and before we begin the game I'm going to lay my cards on the table.
- Hermann Hesse
If you are nothing else in this life, be wise, be compassionate, and be strong because those three are everything
- Kristen Ashley
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
- David Herbert Lawrence
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
- Francis Bacon
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
- Jane Austen
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
- Oscar Wilde
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, little guy, stay in there where Lord King Neurotic can't kill all your fun. (Chris)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
- Dale Carnegie
Smartass Disciple: Master, we should not spend our time to low life like them.
Master of Stupidity: If I don't, then how should I lead men like you to be wiser?
- Toba Beta
A bitter reality of truth
can be wisely told
in a sweet tale of lullaby.
- Toba Beta
No shortcut to wisdom.
No tollways to be wise.
- Toba Beta
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
- Allan Bloom
The world's theology
The world's theology is easy to define.
It is the view...
that human beings are basically good,
that no one is really lost,
that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."
Romans 1:22
- James Montgomery Boice
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
- Thomas More
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare
Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious,
Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.
- William Shakespeare
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
- Samuel Johnson
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
- Alain De Botton
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to allexcept the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
- John F Kennedy
In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.
- Dan Brown
To be wise is to be eternally curious.
- Frederick Buechner
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
- Edmund Burke
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
- Whittaker Chambers
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
- Philip Stanhope
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
- Charles De Secondat
It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.
- Louis L Amour
So there we were. Once upon a time, during the storybook version of dating we'd gone through, I'd pretended that it was possible to love her when I only mildly liked her. Now I had no desire to pretend we'd ever be in love, and I liked her madly.
'Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?' I asked her.
She laughed. 'You mean, can we share our fuckups and see if we can get any wisdom out of them?'
'Yeah,' I said. 'That would be nice.
- David Levithan
Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?
- Rachel Cohn
Abe: Wise hermit cast adrift on asteroid for thousands of years; has developed odd code languages for everyday actions; lonely but not bitter; his heart is cryogenically frozen, and he must search the universe pursuing the Thawer.
- Douglas Coupland
By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.
- Santosh Kalwar
The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools.
- Santosh Kalwar
But when mother died, Caroline was twelve, and in that queer time between childhood and nubile girlhood, when some girls seem to be wise without experience, and perhaps more clear-headed then they will be again until after their menopause.
- Robertson Davies
It is never too late to be wise.
- Daniel Defoe
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
- Demosthenes
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
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.
- Hilda Doolittle
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupidand I know they areyet I won't be wiser?
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
- Michel De Montaigne
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- Michel De Montaigne
I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious.
- Horace
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
- Horace
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
- Horace
You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
- Bob Dylan
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
- Tryon Edwards
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 me.
- Shirley Jackson
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
- Omar Khayyam
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 woods with a few close friends and get it done?"
Halt hesitated. "Well, no...of course not."
As a matter of fact, that was exactly what he had thought. A simple ceremony, a few friends, some food and drink and then he and Pauline would be a couple. But he felt that it might not be wise to admit that right now.
- John Flanagan
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
- Malcolm Forbes
Vengeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid 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 can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?'
'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge.
- Neil Gaiman
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, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.
- Neil Gaiman
it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
- George R R Martin
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
- William Golding
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 can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
- Abraham Lincoln
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
- Thomas Gray
'Tis folly to be wise.
- Thomas Gray
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
- Manly Hall
It would be wise to be concerned about the introvert who is deprived of solitude. Is she neglecting herself due to depression? Is she falling victim to guilt and self-reproach? Does she feel cut off from pleasure? Does she feel dead?
- Laurie Helgoe
You can be wise and happy, or stupid and miserable.
- Gordon B Hinckley
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
- E W Howe
The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend
- Aldous Huxley
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
- Adam Johnson
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
- Andrew Johnson
But it would be wise."
"I've never been known for my wisdom,
- Allan Frewin Jones
My gas tank is on empty, but my erection is on full. Still, it would be wise to stop the car before I pump.
- Jarod Kintz
One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
- Leon Kass
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 will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
- John Keats
The student asks: If my redstone necklace had every view of every veil that ever brightened, would I be wise? The master answers: If I had a thousand pieces of a priceless vase, would I be rich?
- Kay Kenyon
And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where soft evenings'll unfold like Paris but never seeing how sickening it will be because of the primordial innocence of health and stillnes in the wilds- So I tell myself "Be Wise.
- Jack Kerouac
I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.
- Nicole Kidman
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 them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise
- Barbara Kingsolver
be bold to face the battle, if you win then you are lucky and if you loose then you will be wise...
- Adedayo Kingjerry
During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
- Brian Koslow
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
- Richard Lamm
You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.
- Dennis Lehane
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 told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.
- Dennis Lehane
You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
- Doris Lessing
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
- Sam Levenson
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Charles Spurgeon
Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.
- George Macdonald
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
- Philip Massinger
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
- Moliere
Hey, I thought you wanted to know about the Sinsar Dubh!" I was so startled by his abrupt departure that I spoke without thinking. I regretted it immediately.
I had no idea where Vlane had gone, or why hed disappeared so suddenly, but I decided Id be wise to do the same myself.
Before I could move, a hand closed on my shoulder. "I do, Ms. Lane," Barrons said grimly. "But first Id like to know what the fuck you were doing kissing him.
- Karen Marie Moning
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
- Elizabeth Montagu
Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.
- Booth Tarkington
A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.
- Andrew Murray
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
- Sean Ocasey
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
- William Penn
There are two great powers and they've been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
- Philip Pullman
Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
- Philip Pullman
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
- Francis Quarles
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
- Philippe Quinault
The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.
- John Redwood
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
- Theodor Reik
It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.
- Richard Rolle
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.
- Richard G Scott
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.
- Charles Stanley
With events that have passed there is no problem, provided we don't attempt to be wiser that they are, provided we can't use them to further own own ends. If we let them be, the turn into a marvelous solution, a magical acid that dissolves time and space, eats calendars and atlases, and turns the coordinates of action into sweet nothingness. What is the meaning of the riddle? What is the use to anyone of chronology, sister of death?
- Andrzej Stasiuk
You must be wise, but not too wise.
- Alexander Turney Stewart
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
- A W 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 have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.
- Harry Turtledove
I would like to use this little flower as a metaphor. The five petals of the little forget-me-not flower prompt me to consider five things we would be wise never to forget....first, forget not to be patient with yourself...second, forget not the difference between a good sacrifice and a foolish sacrifice...third, forget not to be happy now...fourth, forget not the why of the gospel...fifth, forget not that the Lord loves you.
- Dieter F Uchtdorf
I am a Magyr. I could crush your skull with my hands and drink this rat town under the table afterwards. And if I wanted to kill myself a passel of sailors, I'd bloody well do it with cannon, saber, and a fist in the teeth, not by batting my damn eyelashes. You'd be wise to remember it, Maggie, my love, and if we see a mermaid on our jaunt across the high seas, the best thing for all of us would be to let Sheapshank here put an arrow through her giggling head.
- Catherynne M Valente
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
- Alan Watts
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
- Lin Yutang
Multiple species, with multiple viewpoints and racial philosophies, simply cannot hold power together for long. The dominant voice must certainly be wise enough to adopt ideas and methods from its allies and member peoples. But there must be a dominant voice, or there is only chaos. In this part of the galaxy, that voice is the Empire.
-Thrawn
- Timothy Zahn
- Mark Twain
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
- Aeschylus
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
- Aesop
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
- Akhenaton
How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?
- Mitch Albom
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 experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
- Louisa May Alcott
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
- Alan Alda
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
- Paul Engle
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
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
- Heraclitus
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
If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the opposite. So now mind what I say! You will hear it and forget it again. You will laugh over it, and you will weep over it. So look out! I am going to play with you for life and death, little brother, and before we begin the game I'm going to lay my cards on the table.
- Hermann Hesse
If you are nothing else in this life, be wise, be compassionate, and be strong because those three are everything
- Kristen Ashley
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
- David Herbert Lawrence
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
- Francis Bacon
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
- Jane Austen
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
- Oscar Wilde
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, little guy, stay in there where Lord King Neurotic can't kill all your fun. (Chris)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
- Dale Carnegie
Smartass Disciple: Master, we should not spend our time to low life like them.
Master of Stupidity: If I don't, then how should I lead men like you to be wiser?
- Toba Beta
A bitter reality of truth
can be wisely told
in a sweet tale of lullaby.
- Toba Beta
No shortcut to wisdom.
No tollways to be wise.
- Toba Beta
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
- Allan Bloom
The world's theology
The world's theology is easy to define.
It is the view...
that human beings are basically good,
that no one is really lost,
that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."
Romans 1:22
- James Montgomery Boice
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
- Thomas More
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare
Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious,
Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.
- William Shakespeare
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
- Samuel Johnson
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
- Alain De Botton
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to allexcept the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
- John F Kennedy
In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.
- Dan Brown
To be wise is to be eternally curious.
- Frederick Buechner
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
- Edmund Burke
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
- Whittaker Chambers
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
- Philip Stanhope
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
- Charles De Secondat
It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.
- Louis L Amour
So there we were. Once upon a time, during the storybook version of dating we'd gone through, I'd pretended that it was possible to love her when I only mildly liked her. Now I had no desire to pretend we'd ever be in love, and I liked her madly.
'Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?' I asked her.
She laughed. 'You mean, can we share our fuckups and see if we can get any wisdom out of them?'
'Yeah,' I said. 'That would be nice.
- David Levithan
Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?
- Rachel Cohn
Abe: Wise hermit cast adrift on asteroid for thousands of years; has developed odd code languages for everyday actions; lonely but not bitter; his heart is cryogenically frozen, and he must search the universe pursuing the Thawer.
- Douglas Coupland
By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.
- Santosh Kalwar
The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools.
- Santosh Kalwar
But when mother died, Caroline was twelve, and in that queer time between childhood and nubile girlhood, when some girls seem to be wise without experience, and perhaps more clear-headed then they will be again until after their menopause.
- Robertson Davies
It is never too late to be wise.
- Daniel Defoe
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
- Demosthenes
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
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.
- Hilda Doolittle
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupidand I know they areyet I won't be wiser?
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
- Michel De Montaigne
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- Michel De Montaigne
I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious.
- Horace
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
- Horace
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
- Horace
You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
- Bob Dylan
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
- Tryon Edwards
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 me.
- Shirley Jackson
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
- Omar Khayyam
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 woods with a few close friends and get it done?"
Halt hesitated. "Well, no...of course not."
As a matter of fact, that was exactly what he had thought. A simple ceremony, a few friends, some food and drink and then he and Pauline would be a couple. But he felt that it might not be wise to admit that right now.
- John Flanagan
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
- Malcolm Forbes
Vengeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid 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 can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?'
'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge.
- Neil Gaiman
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, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.
- Neil Gaiman
it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
- George R R Martin
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
- William Golding
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 can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
- Abraham Lincoln
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
- Thomas Gray
'Tis folly to be wise.
- Thomas Gray
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
- Manly Hall
It would be wise to be concerned about the introvert who is deprived of solitude. Is she neglecting herself due to depression? Is she falling victim to guilt and self-reproach? Does she feel cut off from pleasure? Does she feel dead?
- Laurie Helgoe
You can be wise and happy, or stupid and miserable.
- Gordon B Hinckley
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
- E W Howe
The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend
- Aldous Huxley
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
- Adam Johnson
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
- Andrew Johnson
But it would be wise."
"I've never been known for my wisdom,
- Allan Frewin Jones
My gas tank is on empty, but my erection is on full. Still, it would be wise to stop the car before I pump.
- Jarod Kintz
One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
- Leon Kass
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 will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
- John Keats
The student asks: If my redstone necklace had every view of every veil that ever brightened, would I be wise? The master answers: If I had a thousand pieces of a priceless vase, would I be rich?
- Kay Kenyon
And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where soft evenings'll unfold like Paris but never seeing how sickening it will be because of the primordial innocence of health and stillnes in the wilds- So I tell myself "Be Wise.
- Jack Kerouac
I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.
- Nicole Kidman
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 them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise
- Barbara Kingsolver
be bold to face the battle, if you win then you are lucky and if you loose then you will be wise...
- Adedayo Kingjerry
During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
- Brian Koslow
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
- Richard Lamm
You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.
- Dennis Lehane
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 told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.
- Dennis Lehane
You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
- Doris Lessing
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
- Sam Levenson
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Charles Spurgeon
Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.
- George Macdonald
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
- Philip Massinger
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
- Moliere
Hey, I thought you wanted to know about the Sinsar Dubh!" I was so startled by his abrupt departure that I spoke without thinking. I regretted it immediately.
I had no idea where Vlane had gone, or why hed disappeared so suddenly, but I decided Id be wise to do the same myself.
Before I could move, a hand closed on my shoulder. "I do, Ms. Lane," Barrons said grimly. "But first Id like to know what the fuck you were doing kissing him.
- Karen Marie Moning
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
- Elizabeth Montagu
Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.
- Booth Tarkington
A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.
- Andrew Murray
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
- Sean Ocasey
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
- William Penn
There are two great powers and they've been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
- Philip Pullman
Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
- Philip Pullman
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
- Francis Quarles
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
- Philippe Quinault
The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.
- John Redwood
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
- Theodor Reik
It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.
- Richard Rolle
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.
- Richard G Scott
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.
- Charles Stanley
With events that have passed there is no problem, provided we don't attempt to be wiser that they are, provided we can't use them to further own own ends. If we let them be, the turn into a marvelous solution, a magical acid that dissolves time and space, eats calendars and atlases, and turns the coordinates of action into sweet nothingness. What is the meaning of the riddle? What is the use to anyone of chronology, sister of death?
- Andrzej Stasiuk
You must be wise, but not too wise.
- Alexander Turney Stewart
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
- A W 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 have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.
- Harry Turtledove
I would like to use this little flower as a metaphor. The five petals of the little forget-me-not flower prompt me to consider five things we would be wise never to forget....first, forget not to be patient with yourself...second, forget not the difference between a good sacrifice and a foolish sacrifice...third, forget not to be happy now...fourth, forget not the why of the gospel...fifth, forget not that the Lord loves you.
- Dieter F Uchtdorf
I am a Magyr. I could crush your skull with my hands and drink this rat town under the table afterwards. And if I wanted to kill myself a passel of sailors, I'd bloody well do it with cannon, saber, and a fist in the teeth, not by batting my damn eyelashes. You'd be wise to remember it, Maggie, my love, and if we see a mermaid on our jaunt across the high seas, the best thing for all of us would be to let Sheapshank here put an arrow through her giggling head.
- Catherynne M Valente
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
- Alan Watts
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
- Lin Yutang
Multiple species, with multiple viewpoints and racial philosophies, simply cannot hold power together for long. The dominant voice must certainly be wise enough to adopt ideas and methods from its allies and member peoples. But there must be a dominant voice, or there is only chaos. In this part of the galaxy, that voice is the Empire.
-Thrawn
- Timothy Zahn
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