Becoming Wise Quotes

#1. Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

Ram Dass

#2. The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Evan Esar

#3. Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Suzanne Curchod

#4. What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

Epictetus

#5. But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.

M. Scott Peck

#6. Wouldn't you be pleased if I decided I'm becoming too old for adventuring?"
Viscount Dare frowned. "You're not too old for it. But I'd like to think you're becoming too wise for it.

Suzanne Enoch

#7. You can't go back and I think that's the point of all to grow and grow until you don't want to anymore.

Nikki Rowe

#8. 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

#9. The last of us could be the very best of us who ever roamed the earth, the great exemplars of a humanity we used to dream of becoming before we got wise to the reality that we are just a mob always in the market for new recruits.

Thomas Ligotti

#10. As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

Pliny The Elder

#11. The past is gone and what is ahead is still to be felt.

Nonna Bannister

#12. In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#13. I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.

Patti Smith

#14. The worst thing you could do is scare a kid or trick them. Never, ever, ever do that.

Julianne Moore

#15. This is what makes them so dear and worthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Therefore, I can love them.

Hermann Hesse

#16. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Words on paper are not the same as blood on hands.

Lorraine Heath

#18. Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on.

David Byrne

#19. Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

Pam Brown

#20. Now you are burnt-out husks, your spirits haggard, sere, always breeding over your wanderings long and hard, your hearts never lifting with any joy - you've suffered far too much.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#21. One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.

J.R. Tompkins

#22. The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.

David Hawkins

#23. A lot of my friends are gay, and certainly I have no tolerance for anyone who has any sort of ignorance or restriction on people's lives or love lives.

Sasha Roiz

#24. To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Plato

#25. When you learn to say 'NO', you activate the faculty of 'CHOICE' in your mind ! Some of the times you are the chosen one..at other times you CHOOSE for yourself..and saying NO is a sign that one has graduated into becoming a wise CHOICEMAKER ......

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#26. I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

Richard Lamm

#27. You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that falls apart.

Nikki Rowe

#28. We should use discernment to connect dots, avoid traps, and make wise judgments without becoming too judgmental, suspicious, and faultfinders.

Assegid Habtewold

#29. This self-knowledge is the foundation for becoming the wise, compassionate, and peaceful person you have the capacity to become. So how do we do deeply know ourselves?

Cindy Wigglesworth

#30. Love between a man and a woman simply cannot work without love for God at the center of the relationship; by means of his curses, God mercifully brings

Richard D. Phillips

#31. This photo is more significant because it is a rare time where my head looks normal size. I have enormous head, so it is important to me to have a few flattering, head-minimizing photos.

Mindy Kaling

#32. People no longer need to go to church to hear the Word, which has been the selling point for local churches for the past fifty years. Because of this, church is becoming less of a possessor of knowledge (commodity) and more a communal hub.

Justin Wise

#33. Now is the time that we make conscientious efforts towards becoming a real wise species, free from all sorts of bigotry, mysticism and sectarianism.

Abhijit Naskar

#34. Have you not noticed that the wild flowers are becoming scarcer every year? It may be that their wise men have told them to depart till man becomes more human. Perhaps they have migrated to heaven.

Okakura Kakuzo

#35. Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day.

James Lee Burke