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
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
- Heraclitus
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
- Horace
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
- Horace
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
- Malcolm Forbes
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
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
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
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
- Richard Lamm
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
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
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
- Moliere
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
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
- Philippe Quinault
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 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
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
- 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
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
- Heraclitus
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
- Horace
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
- Horace
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
- Malcolm Forbes
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
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
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
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
- Richard Lamm
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
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
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
- Moliere
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
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
- Philippe Quinault
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 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
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
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