Being Wise Quotes - Page 10

• It is not possible to love and be wise.

  Josephine Tey

  Wise, Wisdom

  Josephine Tey (2012). “To Love and Be Wise”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist. It constantly shows us that we need to be patient on an ongoing basis, not just every now and then, if we´re going to realize true inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment.

  Surya Das

  Wise, Patience, Teacher

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• Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing.

  Lorrie Moore

  Wise, Writing, Thinking

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• There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Wise, Philosophical, Men

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• As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Men, Darkness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1837). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think”, p.97

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• The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wise, Attitude, Lying

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• Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Race, Sea

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• Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to allow for the self-serving bias of everybody else because most people are not going to remove it all that successfully, the human condition being what it is. If you don't allow for self-serving bias in your conduct, again you're a fool.

  Charlie Munger

  Wise, Self, People

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• Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Wise, Strong, Light

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• Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live. If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

  Asahel Nettleton

  Christian, Wise, Mean

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• There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

  Herman Melville

  Wise, Thinking, Giving

  Herman Melville (2016). “The Confidence-Man”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• 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

  Wise, Wisdom, Pride

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.803, e-artnow

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• We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

  Leon Kass

  Wise, Engineering, Talking

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• 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

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 9, 1911.

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• Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Wise, Thinking, Planning Ahead

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• Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Wise, Children, Taught

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1894). “Émile; Or, Concerning Education: Extracts Containing the Principal Elements of Pedagogy Found in the First Three Books”

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• 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

  Wise, People, Use

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.319, ShandonPress

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• To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

  Michael Ende

  Wise, Hate, Ambition

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• Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be the one who stands strong. Don't be a follower.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Wise, Strong, Bad Friend

  Robin Jones Gunn (1998). “A Whisper and a Wish”, Bethany House Pub

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• Live long, my friend, be wise and strong. But do not from any man his song.

  Ruskin Bond

  Wise, Song, Strong

  Ruskin Bond (1991). “Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra”, p.47, Penguin Books India

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• It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Wisdom, Wish

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• 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

  Wise, Clever, Doe

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• He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

  Quintus Ennius

  Wise, Helping

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• It is never too late to be wise.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wise, Too Late, Never Too Late

  Daniel Defoe, Thomas Roscoe (1831). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe”, p.188

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