Being Wise Quotes - Page 6

• We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.

  Philip Gulley

  Wise, Wisdom, Courage

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• Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Lady Macbeth

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.867, Wordsworth Editions

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• All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

  Moliere

  Wise, Perfect, Wish

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• I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my kids would rise up and call me blessed. Now I see that whatever I'm like, I'm pretty well stuck with it for life. Hell of a revelation that turned out to be.

  Margaret Laurence

  Wise, Blessed, Kids

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• If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Gambling, Evil

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.149

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• The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.

  George Henry Lewes

  Wise, Moving, May

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, 'Lord, teach us to preach'; Lord, teach us to do miracles,' or 'Lord, teach us to be wise'...but they said, 'Lord, teach us to pray.'

  Billy Graham

  Wise, Jesus, Responsibility

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.272, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Man must suffer to be wise.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Men, Suffering

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• Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.

  Roger Pilon

  Wise, Powerful, Rights

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• States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.

  Richard N. Haass

  Wise, Order, Would Be

  "State sovereignty must be altered in globalized era" by Richard Haass, www.taipeitimes.com. February 21, 2006.

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• You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Wise, Intelligent

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• It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.

  Heather Small

  Wise, Goes On, Bitterness

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• Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Boat, Conferences

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• Be someone who genuinely seeks to understand, and you will be wise. Be someone kind, someone considerate, and you will be admired. Be someone who values truth, and you will be respected. Be someone who takes action, and you will move life forward.

  Ralph Marston

  Wise, Moving, Action

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• Anyone starting to garden... would be wise to look around carefully and see what grows well in other people's yards.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Wise, Garden, People

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• The industries closest to Google - media, advertising, and entertainment - are affected first. But the avalanche that is Google and the internet will overtake all industries and institutions - carmakers, bankers, universities, government - as we undergo a fundamental restructuring of the economy and society. Every industry and institution would be wise to understand the need for handing over control, for transparency, for collaboration and speed.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Wise, Google, Collaboration

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• For ages the world has been living by the stupidity of an old Roman adage that says if you want peace, prepare for war. As if anything said in ancient times must be wise, people have used this phrase to justify some of the most unjustifiable arms build-ups, which, far from creating peace, has only become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Oscar Arias

  Wise, War, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are direct transcriptions of me blathering over dinner with a glass of wine in my hand. I don't hold any illusion of those conversations being of particular value. The books, though, are - I hope - bigger than my opinions, investigations that go beyond my own intellect or wit.

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Wine, Opinion

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

  Eric Maisel

  Wise, Artist, Might

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Madness

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.12

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• If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete.

  Sam Smith

  Wise, Obsolete, Ifs

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• Sherlock Holmes can be wise and funny. He wasn't, at the beginning. But later on, he's got a bantering relationship with loads of people. He's got a wisdom that he didn't have in the early stage. But he stays on the mountain top, and he will die up there. He's not going to change that.

  Steven Moffat

  Wise, People, Mountain

  Source: collider.com

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• If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed out and presented Earthlings with a list of secrets - a simple formula - for making life finally work on this planet without violence, killing, and war, without turmoil, pain, and suffering, without want, lack, and despair, do you think we would be wise to look it over? Even if it contradicted everything we knew to be true or thought to be so?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Wise, Pain, War

  "Overcoming Separation Theology" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Wise, Nature, Memories

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people?

  Paul Nitze

  Wise, Thinking, Compelling Reason

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