Unwise Quotes

• It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

  John Ruskin

  Too Much, Littles, Pay

  "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

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• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• What is necessary is never unwise.

  Ben Cross

  Decision, Decision Making

  "Fictional chaacter: Sarek". "Star Trek", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

  James Russell Lowell

  Compromise, Poor, Umbrella

  1884 'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.

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• I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Believe, Steps

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• This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

  John Milton

  Servitude

  John Milton, David Masson (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.277

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• This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Doubt, Fiction

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Wisest, Pride And Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

  John Ruskin

  Littles, Pay, Too Much

  "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Wisdom, Party

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Love, Heart, Perfect

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.57, Penguin

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• But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Perfect, Fantasy Love, And Love

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.57, Penguin

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• The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Power, Political

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.152

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• So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

  Walter Bagehot

  Fear, Long, Judgement

  Walter Bagehot (1986). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany”

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• Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

  Andrew Young

  Wisdom, Views, Looks

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• It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Marriage, People

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• It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Running, Business

  "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

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• Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.

  Charles Stanley

  Forgiving, Looks, Down And

  Charles F. Stanley (1987). “Forgiveness”

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• The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Thinking, Just Be Happy

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• We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Too Much, Separation

  Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

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• When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.

  Jim Holt

  Trying, World, Assuming

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• God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

  Craig Groeschel

  Want, Causes

  Craig Groeschel (2010). “The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist”, p.167, Harper Collins

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• To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Work Out, Trying, Way

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• I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Wise, Wisdom

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Familiar letters”

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• ... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

  Frances Wright

  War, Evil, Feelings

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.107

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