Being Wise Quotes - Page 7

• To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

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• Yoda is interesting because, in addition to being wise, he is two feet tall, and a Yoda.

  Dan Harmon

  Wise, Two, Feet

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• A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wise, Wisdom, Maturity

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.469

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• To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Wisdom, Thinking

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• The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

  Epicharmus of Kos

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Something that is said with the word “YOU” is truly heard by a very few and, that too, listened only of someone who leads a very simple life and regularly says the things refreshingly new because “You” has a tone and texture of an ADVICE, which everyone tries to give than take from others as almost all consider themselves to be WISE.

  Anuj

  Wise, Simple, Giving

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• What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Women, Differences

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1755, Delphi Classics

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• Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.

  Louise Rosenblatt

  Wise, Understanding, Literature

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• He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

  Solomon

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Women, Gowns

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.367

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• You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Buddhism, Mind

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• What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

  Abigail Adams

  Family, Wise, Children

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Wise, Heart, Irritation

  Benjamin Harrison (1901). “Views of an Ex-president”

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• You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wise, May, Bases

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Advice, Shrewdness

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• If you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Voice, Desert

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• Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Patience, Needs

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to interpret any vision till they have first enquired the time at which it befell; for, if it were early, and of the morning sleep, they then thought that they might make a good interpretation thereof... in that the soul was then fitted for divination, and disincumbered. But if in the first sleep, or near midnight, while the soul was as yet clouded and drowned in libations, they, being wise, refused to give any interpretation.

  Anna Kingsford

  Wise, Morning, Kings

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• I really do believe that the basic principle that Americans have the right to know what they're buying when they buy it is going to be something that spreads across this country very quickly, and that the food manufacturers would be wise to be leaders instead of trying to block this with lawsuits and other ways of trying to get their way.

  Peter Shumlin

  Wise, Country, Block

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Steps, Lord

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.982, Discovery House

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• Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

  Euripides

  Wise, Wisdom, Heart

  Euripides (1958). “Three Great Plays of Euripides”, Signet Book

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• To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

  James Montgomery

  Wise, Carpe Diem, Years

  James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir of the Author...”, p.173

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• Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

  Mariano Rivera

  Wise, Jobs, Smart

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