Being Wise Quotes - Page 2

• Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

  Thomas Gray

  Inspirational, Wise, Ignorance

  "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" l. 99 (1747)

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• To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Success, Wise, Looks

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

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

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• 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.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No man was ever wise by chance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

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  Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wise

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.36

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• Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

  Richard G. Scott

  Letting Go, Wise, Quiet Moments

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• 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.

  Shimon Peres

  Wise, Three, Fats

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• Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Wise, Dull, Fool

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• To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Life, Relationship

  TV Series "American Masters" ("No Direction Home: Bob Dylan", 2005), www.imdb.com. (1985– ).

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• Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wise, Deeds, Jew

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• Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, May

  Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The Essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.151

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• Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

  Horace Walpole

  Wise, Half, Done

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• She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

  Jane Austen

  Wise, Reasonable, Alas

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.372

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• 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.

  Edgar Guest

  Wise, Giving, Lessons

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• It is impossible to love and to be wise.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.39

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• I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Success, Wise, Philosophical

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• I have nothing against alсoнol, there is nothing I can do to tell people not to do it. I don't tell people not to, I just tell people to be wise about it. If you want to do it go ahead, if you don't go ahead. Nothing makes you cooler, nothing makes you lamer. You're just a normal person if you don't want to do it.

  D-Pryde

  Wise, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

  Philippe Quinault

  Wise, Wisdom, Wiser

  "Armide". 1686.

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• To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

  Ernest Chapman

  Wise, Believe, Two

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• 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.

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Bravery

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• Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Wise

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

  Aeschylus

  Wise, Believe, Pride

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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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