Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.
If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.
You can't be wise and in love at the same time.
Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
The lectures you deliver may be wise and true, But I'd rather get my lessons by observing what you do. I may not understand the high advise you like to give, But there's no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.
[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter.
Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.
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