Overwise Quotes

#1. Honest folks, born and bred in a visible manner, were mostly not overwise or clever _ at least, not beyond such a matter as knowing the signs of the weather; and the process by which rapidity and dexterity of any kind were acquired was so wholly hidden, that they partook of the nature of conjuring.

George Eliot

#2. To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

Edith Hamilton

#4. Don't be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence ...

Laurance Labadie

#6. Was it harder to die, or harder to be the one who survived?

Ruta Sepetys

#7. It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Sinclair Lewis

#8. Don't think so deeply ... so taking decisions will be difficult ...

Raheel Habib

#9. Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

Alan Hirsch

#10. No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

Albert Schweitzer

#11. I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

Lev Grossman

#12. I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

Najib Mikati

#13. Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Malcolm X

#15. The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

Samuel Johnson

#16. The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.

George S. Patton

#17. It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

Patty Griffin

#18. Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.

Frederick Lenz