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  • You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

  • License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

    Love   Wise   Mean  
    "I did but prompt the age" l. 11 (1673)
  • Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

    Wise   Art   Philosophy  
    'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 157
  • Knowing the truth about the hell-realms that animals have to endure, it would be wise of us to do our best now not to plant the karmic seeds that would cause us to be reborn as an animal in one of those hell realms.

    Wise   Animal   Knowing  
    "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.
  • Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

    Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.36
  • You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

    Life   Wise   Looks  
    Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.193, Penguin
  • Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing.

    Wise   Writing   Thinking  
  • The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

    Love   Wise   Stupid  
    Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.190, Transaction Publishers
  • It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

  • 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.

    Wise   Home   Learning  
  • 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.

    Wise   Carpe Diem   Years  
    James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir of the Author...”, p.173
  • What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

    Wise   Wisdom   Faults  
    Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.123
  • I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • 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.

  • No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

    Wise   Men   Empty  
    George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.71
  • To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

  • Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

    Wise   Country   Peace  
  • I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

    Wise   Earth   Reason  
    Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.419, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

    Wise   Wisdom   Circles  
    C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.99, Cambridge University Press
  • We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

  • My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.

    Wise   Wisdom   Virtue  
  • [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.

    Wise   Hatred   Might  
  • Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

    Wise   Odds   Smoking  
  • In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

    Marriage   Wise   Wedding  
    William Penn (1807). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a "Description of the happy man & true gentleman."”, p.26
  • To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.

    Wise   Wisdom   Eye  
  • I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

    Wise   People   Use  
    Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.319, ShandonPress
  • Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

    Taken   Mean   Knowing  
  • Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

    God   Wise   Prayer  
  • 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.

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