Top 100 Quotes About Unwise
#1. It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
John C. Calhoun
#2. I wondered whether trusting him was merely unwise or if it crossed the line into recklessness, like lying down for a nap in the middle of a road.
Ransom Riggs
#3. A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word "impossible," and neatly clip it out of the book. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do.
Napoleon Hill
#4. If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
Baltasar Gracian
#5. What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
Diane Duane
#6. I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.
Jonathan Franzen
#7. Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.
Vladimir Lenin
#8. You have done an unwise thing, Martise of Asher," he said softly. "You've caught my interest.
Grace Draven
#9. If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.
Rand Paul
#10. Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.
Oliver Cromwell
#11. I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#12. It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action.
A.J. Darkholme
#13. My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?
Jack London
#14. Jesus gave us, His children, three reasons for not worrying about this life: It is unnecessary because of our Father, it is uncharacteristic because of our faith, and it is unwise because of our future.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#15. It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting. There may be a time when this symbol means something treacherous and terrible, rather than something noble and literate.
Lemony Snicket
#16. Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.
Ezra Taft Benson
#17. to want any woman so badly was unwise, let alone his enemy's daughter." An Artful Seduction
Tina Gabrielle
#18. Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom ... is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain
#19. When you say 'he has seen the light' you sound as if you mean 'corrupted,' " he said. "Something like that, yes. Different worlds, Commander. Down here, it would be unwise to trust your metaphors. To see the light is to be blinded. Do you not know that in the darkness, the eyes open wider?
Terry Pratchett
#20. There has been an unwise and spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to grow a goatee, hence a fluffy little tuft of something or other, just underneath the centre of his lower lip, that any mother would want to rub off with a bit of spit.
Nick Hornby
#21. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington
#22. The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.
Fritz Leiber
#23. Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having chosen sensible restraint over common decency.
Amelie Nothomb
#24. It were unwise to be sanguine,
and unphilosophical to despair.
John Playfair
#25. It is unwise, my child, to look too long behind you, else you will miss the future that lies before you.
Regan Walker
#26. Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.
Gautama Buddha
#27. Catelyn had not eaten today. Perhaps that had been unwise. She told herself that there had been no time, but the truth was that food had lost its savor in a world without Ned. 'When they took his head off, they killed me too.
George R R Martin
#28. Whatever this is, I like it. However reckless, however unwise this is, I don't care. I'd rather lose him this way than any other way.
Jeff Zentner
#29. It would be either a very skilled or very unwise man to steal from an assassin." - Taliesin
Sabrina Zbasnik
#30. It's unwise to presume on the future ... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always do later the good we can do now.
Mark Beeson
#31. Can one regret a thing that, however unwise, was beautiful? she said, and the hurt in his eyes softened into confusion.
Cassandra Clare
#32. You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.
Dorothy Koomson
#33. To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
George Eliot
#34. Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.
Andy Stanley
#35. U dare to threaten me?she retaliated, gaining her feet as she faced off with the Enforcer in what had to be the most unwise action in Council history since the decision to go to war with the Druids.
Jacquelyn Frank
#36. The principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.
Georgia Harkness
#37. Hope makes the wise stronger and the unwise weaker.
Raheel Farooq
#38. Young people sometimes use their innocence as an excuse to be unwise.
David A.R. White
#39. 'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.
Andrew Levkoff
#41. It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.
Brigham Young
#42. Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
Andrew Young
#43. There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.
Chris Cleave
#44. No, my lord. I merely thought it unwise for you to visit the Duke of Massingale and request his granddaughter's hand in marriage while intoxicated." Reeves replaced the stopper on the decanter and carried it back to the sideboard. "His Lordship would not appreciate such a display.
Karen Hawkins
#45. God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise
Craig Groeschel
#46. This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman
#47. The trouble with the merely unwise/deeply stupid line is that you often don't know which side you're on until it's too late.
Ransom Riggs
#48. He picked some unwise words. Saying, "I'll enjoy killing you for my lord", is just not the way to make my acquaintance.
Charlaine Harris
#49. I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
Henry David Thoreau
#50. An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely.
T.A. Miles
#51. The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure."
"So what, it's stupid to even try?"
"No. It's unwise to hope."
- Something Like Stardust
Genevieve Ross
#52. In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.
Deborah Sampson
#53. She hesitated, aware that an ill-judged phrase might anger Triumvir Hegazi; not that she particularly cared. Dared she call it the Melding Plague, now that the Yellowstoners had given it a name? Perhaps that would be unwise.
Alastair Reynolds
#54. There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.
Daniel Webster
#55. Friendship is usually treated ... as a tough ... thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word ...
Ouida
#57. Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.
Charles Stanley
#58. Having someone prancing around with an active chain saw while the ground shifted seemed spectacularly unwise.
Daniel O'Malley
#59. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch
as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Ambrose Bierce
#61. A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
Andre Gide
#62. It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.
Ellen Swallow Richards
#63. War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.
Martin Sheen
#64. Some would say it's unwise to insult a Fae in his home," Tamlin ground out. "Some would say you should be grateful for me finding you before another one of my kind came to claim the debt, for sparing your life and then offering you the chance to live in comfort.
Sarah J. Maas
#65. People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going.
Elaine Stritch
#66. It is unwise to refuse to face reality; however if our reality is negative we can still have a positive attitude toward it.
Joyce Meyer
#67. I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
John Podesta
#68. Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.
William Safire
#69. When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.
Jim Holt
#70. To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.
Francesco Guicciardini
#72. Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.
K.J. Bishop
#73. To err is common
To all men, but the man who having erred
Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks
The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.
Sophocles
#74. That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. I had made the unwise decision to have my old clothes bagged and wear my fancy new finds home, so that I could debut my new look to the world at large. The reaction had been mixed at best, but often Tyne and wear was unable to keep up with my style savvy, so I didn't let it dishearten me.
Matthew Crow
#77. It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years.
Grover Norquist
#78. In medical science, as in daily life, it was unwise to jump to conclusions
Albert Camus
#79. It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return.
John Mihaljevic
#80. In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#81. To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.
ElRay L. Christiansen
#82. What is necessary is never unwise.
Ben Cross
#83. If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.
Josh Hartnett
#84. 51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking for a law to prevent Charlie Hebdo from publishing caricatures, but they are calling on its editors to be a bit more sensible.
Tariq Ramadan
#85. Two kinds of selfish people: the unwise and the wise. Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy.
Pema Chodron
#87. It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
Belva Plain
#88. In my opinion it is unwise to judge a young man by his school record. We have too many examples of bad students becoming distinguished men, and, on the other hand, of brilliant students not being at all remarkable in life.
Frank Wedekind
#89. It is unwise for them to be so very happy, for the gods will feel the need to humble us.
R.L. LaFevers
#90. The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Walter Savage Landor
#91. No man or Genie on earth had "created" anything, we merely assembled God's Atoms, by learning it's properties, with his aid, so if anyone said that we had "invented" anything - he had Invented a lie; an unwise man ... thinks we have created an atom.
Albert Einstein
#92. Falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back is a disease caused by unwise opening of the mouth.
Terry Pratchett
#93. It's unwise to let rage get the better of you. And you shouldn't hinge everything on whether you'll get to see the Emperor. Being obsessed with one thing like that has made him a sad, lonely man.
Joanne Owen
#94. How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Winston Churchill
#95. My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.
Marianne Williamson
#96. In low levels of consciousness it is unwise to believe, trust or follow our thinking
Jack Pransky
#98. The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.
Anthony Kennedy
#99. Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional.
Jim Babka
