Being Wise Quotes - Page 4

• Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Prayer, Purpose

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• Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Odds, Smoking

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• 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

  Wise, Willing

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 11, 2017

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• In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government, it bids fair to be one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.

  George Washington

  Wise, Country, Government

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.271

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• What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Exercise, Brave

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2005). “The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists”, p.8, University of Michigan Press

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• Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.

  Zhuangzi

  Wise, Wisdom, Light

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• My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.

  Zhuangzi

  Wise, Wisdom, Virtue

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• The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.

  Kenny Smith

  Wise, Philosophy, Keys

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• If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Wise, Heart, Would Be

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• It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

  Plato

  Wise, Integrity, Men

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• If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Wise, Meaningful, Gratitude

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• Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Men, Wish

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's diary of A journey into North Wales”, p.247

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• Festination may prove Precipitation;
  Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Procrastination, Haste

  Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals”, p.278

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• It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

  Richard Rolle

  Wise, May, God Love

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• It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the devil. Like is quickly shown to like. The simplicity of the dove denotes purity of action.

  Syncletica of Alexandria

  Christian, Wise, Mean

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• To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised by the love of God. That will guarantee a good life.

  Pope Francis

  Wise, Good Life, Thinking

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• To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

  Agnes Repplier

  Wise, Fate, Brave

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blood, Soul, Depth

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• It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself a magnificent being, wise and beautiful. I love what I see in me.

  Louise Hay

  Beautiful, Wise, Moving

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Sep 23, 2009

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• Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow not the dictates of passion, but enlist yourselves under the sacred banner of reason; use every method in your power to secure your rights.

  Joseph Warren

  Wise, Passion, Patriotic

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• Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

  Frank Warren

  Wise, Brave, Risk

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• Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

  Stephen Colbert

  Wise, Remember You, Remembers You

  Stephen Colbert Commencement Address, departments.knox.edu. June 2006.

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• The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Latin, Complicated Relationship

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• For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Happiness, Wise, World

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• 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

  Wise, New Year, Art

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