Top 100 Be Wise Quotes
#1. Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be the one who stands strong. Don't be a follower.
Robin Jones Gunn
#2. To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised by the love of God. That will guarantee a good life.
Pope Francis
#3. 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.
Sean O'Casey
#4. Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country; observe its principles; and above all, show yourselves men of God, worthy citizens.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#6. I am inclined to think a Christian would be wise to avoid, where he decently can, any meeting with people who are bullies, lascivious, cruel, dishonest, spiteful and so forth.
C.S. Lewis
#7. We should be wise in how we manage the little and then God can trust us with much
Sunday Adelaja
#9. There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
Walter Raleigh
#10. One can't always be wise, can one, in a world like this?
Graham Greene
#11. Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.
Thiruvalluvar
#12. Every church or individual Christian who claims to be Spirit-led must be Word-fed. If we want to know more of the Spirit's power in our lives, we would be wise to fill ourselves with the riches of his
Bob Kauflin
#13. I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.
Nicole Kidman
#14. The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
Bernard L. Schwartz
#15. 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
#16. Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.
Marianne Williamson
#17. I feel like making the mistakes I always wanted to make, but never had the courage to ... I can make new friends and teach them how to be crazy too in order to be wise. I'll tell them not to follow the manuals of good behaviour but to discover their own lives, desires, adventures and to live
Paulo Coelho
#18. 20. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Anonymous
#19. No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.
Benjamin Rudyerd
#20. There is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#21. The purpose of Holy Scripture is not ultimately to make you smart, or make you relevant, or make you rich, or get you a job, or get you married, or take all your problems away, or tell you where to live. The aim is that you might be wise enough to put your faith in Christ and be saved.
Kevin DeYoung
#22. Once in jail or you just go in prison for a reason you don't have rights... So be wise, think twice and don't go there!
Deyth Banger
#23. A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
Josh Billings
#26. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.
Sophocles
#27. Don't take it to be foolishness.. It's impossible to be wise in love.
Harry
#28. But she knew also that it would not be wise to begin her life with Tristan by arguing with his mother.
Neil Gaiman
#29. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
Solomon
#30. Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.
J.C. Ryle
#32. To make wealth wisdom, one needs to be wise. Wisdom may be able to wear the suit of wealth but wealth may not be able to wear the suit of wisdom
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
Bob Dylan
#34. Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Love God more than you fear hell. Make major decisions in a cemetery. When no one is watching, live as if someone is. Succeed at home first. Don't spend tomorrow's money today. Pray twice as much as you fret. God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same.
Max Lucado
#36. If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
Plautus
#37. There is beauty laced within this day ... be courageous enough to find it, be kind enough to share it, and at the end of the day, be wise enough to let it go.
Steve Maraboli
#38. I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats
#39. It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Sam Levenson
#40. No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
Martin Luther
#41. Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Michel De Montaigne
#43. Conventional wisdom may not be wise.
Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.
Freedom of choice is predetermined.
Don't believe anything you read!
L. Anthony
#44. Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#45. Tis the part of a truly prudent man not to be wise beyond his condition, but either to take no notice of what the world does, or run with it for company
Desiderius Erasmus
#46. In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government, it bids fair to be one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.
George Washington
#49. States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves ...
Richard N. Haass
#50. Life moves forward, not backward, and it would be wise to listen to what change has to say.
Bryant McGill
#51. 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
#53. It's Sunday, yesterday was Saturday, before Saturday was Friday 3.18.2016 - I'm 16 and soon I will be 17, the times flies. We can't stop it, but we can be wise and use it in clever way!
Deyth Banger
#54. I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights.
Pat Robertson
#55. We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
A.W. Tozer
#56. 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.
Robert Browning
#57. Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.
John Seabrook
#58. Every day is a gift. Every thought is a lift. Every hour is a prize. Use it and be wise.
Debasish Mridha
#59. How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?
Mitch Albom
#60. You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#61. I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what's in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be brave. We learn to be wise. We struggle to know ourselves and voice what we want.
Leigh Bardugo
#62. I pressed him gently on the matter, but he seemed a little reticent, which is maybe what you'd be wise to expect from a cryptologist who was also a practicing hermeticist.
Mark O'Connell
#63. I knew I was ignorant trying to be wise, lazy pretending to work hard, and over-sensitive to what others thought of me.
Ruth Swaner
#64. We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya Angelou
#65. To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
Horace
#67. Live long, my friend, be wise and strong. But do not from any man his song.
Ruskin Bond
#68. Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies
In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.
Horace
#69. Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?
Rachel Cohn
#70. A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.
Steve Maraboli
#71. If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday life ... The rift is ... between "folk" culture, where the unschooled can be wise, and print culture, which enslaved the other senses to the eye.
Nick Joaquin
#72. Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.
Abdu'l- Baha
#73. I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
Naomi Scott
#74. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.
Samuel Johnson
#75. All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
Moliere
#76. A Best Yes is a wise yes. The Bible reminds us, "Get all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life" (Prov. 19:20 NLT).
Lysa TerKeurst
#78. Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes
#79. And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.
Naomi Novik
#80. Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#81. Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Make the most of prayer ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.
Charles Spurgeon
#83. Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose,
And safe from action, valiantly advise;
Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows,
And being good for nothing else, be wise.
John Wilmot
#84. 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
#85. You will learn to be wise, or you will destroy yourselves as effectively as the Dragumon wished.
Jewel
Charity Bradford
#86. Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is "the fear of the Lord". Fear God and be wise.
Israelmore Ayivor
#87. But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
Thomas Jefferson
#88. Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.
Idries Shah
#89. Really, Miss Catherine, how can I know?' I replied. 'To be sure, considering the exhibition you performed in his presence this afternoon, I might say it would be wise to refuse him: since he asked you after that, he must either be hopelessly stupid or a venturesome fool.
Emily Bronte
#90. Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
William Butler Yeats
#91. I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.
Charlotte Bronte
#92. Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
Samuel Johnson
#94. And a Fool is supposed to be wise?
Robin Hobb
#95. It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
("The Wendigo")
Algernon Blackwood
#97. I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
[Writer's Digest, September 1961]
Harper Lee
#98. I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.
Gregory Corso
#100. Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
