Being Wise Quotes - Page 8

• If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Strong, Book

  Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.

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• I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

  Harper Lee

  Inspirational, Wise, Writing

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• Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.

  Ardeth Kapp

  Wise, Adversity, Errands

  Ardeth Greene Kapp (1987). “I Walk by Faith”, Shadow Mountain

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• Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

  Benjamin Rush

  Wise, Patriotic, Perfect

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

  Muhammad Ali

  Wise, Greatness, Knowing

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2010

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• No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Desire, Gowns

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• It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Wisdom, Intelligence

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• Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

  Horace

  Wise, Military, Venture

  Horace (1878). “Horace: Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica”

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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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• 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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• Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.

  William Congreve

  Wise, Cheer, Grateful

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wise, Home, Learning

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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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• 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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