Top 100 To Be Wise Quotes
#1. We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
#2. He remembered Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the world and to live out Your brief time without fear All this I cannot do.
Madeleine Thien
#3. To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
J. Frank Norris
#4. Enjoy your own authentic stupidity rather than strive vainly to be wise.
David Brandon
#6. It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
Homer
#7. If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.
Shimon Peres
#8. If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind
J.P. Moreland
#10. You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
Doris Lessing
#11. If this is foolish, I don't want to be wise.
Cynthia Hand
#12. Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
Thomas Moore
#14. Win your war, Lord Uhtred," he said, "then take her away from us priests and give her lots of children. She'll be happy, and one day she'll be truly wise. That's the women's real gift, to be wise, and not many men have it.
Bernard Cornwell
#15. It is impossible to be wise, and not love.
Marty Rubin
#17. He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
Horace
#18. Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.
George MacDonald
#19. Crawford, ever wary of desire, knew how badly he wanted to be wise. He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him.
Thomas Harris
#20. It's better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda
#21. In order to be wise, we cannot expect yesterday's wise decision to relieve us from the necessity and responsibility to make wise decisions today.
Marshall Lenne
#22. His eyes were as green and curious as the eyes of a tomcat who is old enough to be wise but not old enough to have lost that refined sense of cruelty which passes for fun in feline circles.
Stephen King
#23. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
#24. Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.
James Clavell
#25. There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.
Giacomo Leopardi
#26. What is it to be wise?
'Tis but to know how little can be known,
To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
Alexander Pope
#27. To be wise and eke to love,
Is granted scarce to gods above.
Edmund Spenser
#29. I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
Elizabeth Montagu
#32. The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools.
Santosh Kalwar
#33. Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.
William Congreve
#34. I'm not a fool; and if I was, folk ought to ha' taught me how to be wise after their fashion. I could mappen ha' learnt, if any one had tried to teach me.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#36. The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.
Kenny Smith
#37. Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.
Gerry Rafferty
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.
Benjamin Rudyerd
#42. 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
#43. A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
Josh Billings
#45. 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
#46. Don't take it to be foolishness.. It's impossible to be wise in love.
Harry
#48. 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
#49. Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise.
Debasish Mridha
#50. It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Sam Levenson
#51. No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
Martin Luther
#53. 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
#54. 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
#56. You will learn to be wise, or you will destroy yourselves as effectively as the Dragumon wished.
Jewel
Charity Bradford
#57. Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.
Idries Shah
#58. 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
#59. I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.
Charlotte Bronte
#60. It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
D.H. Lawrence
#61. We start trying to be wise when we realize that we are not born knowing how to live, but that life is a skill that has to be acquired,
Alain De Botton
#62. I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.
Gregory Corso
#63. It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
("The Wendigo")
Algernon Blackwood
#65. And a Fool is supposed to be wise?
Robin Hobb
#66. Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
#67. 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
#68. Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes
#69. All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
Moliere
#70. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.
Samuel Johnson
#71. Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?
Rachel Cohn
#72. Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies
In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.
Horace
#73. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
Horace
#74. To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.
Debasish Mridha
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?
Mitch Albom
#79. 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
#80. To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.
Michael Ende
#81. But when mother died, Caroline was twelve, and in that queer time between childhood and nubile girlhood, when some girls seem to be wise without experience, and perhaps more clear-headed then they will be again until after their menopause.
Robertson Davies
#82. Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.
Mariano Rivera
#83. Nature battles against us sometimes, and it can be hard. Our souls seek a soul mate and our bodies seek to procreate. You need to be wise and self controlled and not put yourself in a place where nature might overcome your commonsense.
M.H. Strom
#84. Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Moliere
#85. No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
Jonathan Swift
#86. In a group of intelligent men people expect only one to be wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#88. Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace
#89. Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
Horace Walpole
#90. It's time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
Epictetus
#91. 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.
Louisa May Alcott
#92. It is easy to be moderate and cool. It is easy to be ignorant and passionate. But to be wise and yet extravagant, to measure all and yet venture all, this is not easy.
Charles Bigg
#94. Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
Horace
#95. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
#96. To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.
Ernest Chapman
#97. Forgiveness is NOT forgetness. If you forgive, remember to be wise enough NOT to forget.
Widad Akreyi
#98. There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
#99. Is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
