Best wise & enough Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.”

Enough Problem Sound Wise Tasks Notion Leaving Busy Attractive Lazy Lap Delegates Delegation

Author:John Ortberg

“Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.”

Knows Men Enough Wise Patience Insecure Pacifist

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.”

Should May Long Soul Enough Order Wise Demand Advancement Provision Unfolding

Author:Ernest Holmes

“The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.”

Has Beens Art Enough Moments Values Wise Foolish Speakers Publish Eloquence Sinking Declamation

Book:Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

“Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.”

Thinking Enough Running Stars Love Is Wise Moon Shadow Running Away Crooked

Author:William Butler Yeats

“A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.”

Men Enough Wisdom Artist Wish Wise Philosopher Great Art Being Wise Great Artist

Book:Heretics

Source: Heretics

“I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.”

May Littles Stills Matter Enough Hands Strong My Own Wise Masters Circumstances Projects Army Stronger Wave Ships Yield Founders Helm

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.”

People Men Years Enough Character Energy Wise Type Integrity Congress Observation Representatives Select

Author:Sam Rayburn

“When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.”

Has Beens Enough Names Powerful Wise Special Ignorant

Author:Idries Shah

“Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.”

Enough Wise Wise Words Wit

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.”

Ifs Life Enough Wise Needed Constant Brave Glad Naked Instant Perpetual Veils Thrust Docile

Book:Absalom, Absalom!

Source: Absalom, Absalom!

“An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.”

Ifs World Enough Whole Would Be Principles Wise Benefits Weight Mathematical Uniformity

Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.”

Ifs Looks May Littles Enough Views Wise Feet Proud Humble Thee Imperfection Feathers Thyself Being Wise Peacock Self-examination

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.”

Ifs Two Enough Age Left Five Too Much Wise Food Lucky Cooking Potatoes Salad Potato Salad

Author:Laurie Colwin

“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.”

Ifs Knows Enough Use Wisdom Wise Ignorance Remains Comprehension

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.”

Men World Enough Wise Holy Bible Overcoming Intellect Scripture Nevertheless Exalted Holy Scriptures

Author:Angela of Foligno

“The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He should have a touch of cynicism, but only a touch. The complete cynic is as useless to Hollywood as he is to himself. He should do the best he can without straining at it. He should be scrupulously honest about his work, but he should not expect scrupulous honesty in return. He won't get it. And when he has had enough, he should say goodbye with a smile, because for all he knows he may want to go back.”

“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”

Ifs Knows Trying Enough Wanted Wise Letting Go This Life Why Not

Book:The First Bad Man

Source: The First Bad Man

“Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.”

Men Enough Wise Command

Author:George Herbert

“We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?”

Source: Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951

“I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.”

Knows Men Enough Wise Peril

Author:Faramir

“There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.”

People Mean Enough Able Interest Pay Practice Economy Wise Shoes Careful Absence Saving Buying Expenses Cash Avoiding Patches Saving Money Thrift Frugality Old Saying

Author:James E. Faust

“I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.”

Enough Strong Wise Subjects Bounds Journalist Unkind Strong Willed Not Strong

Author:James Nesbitt

“When you feel this knowledge and this spark in yourself, you've gotta continue feeding it. The best thing is to spend time around other wise men, that keeps it burning. That keeps it in every degree sharp as steel, but make sure you absorb enough to find out how it sparks from yourself, how the self starts the self. Once you've got that you should be free. That's freedom, to me.”

Men Feels Should Self Enough Wise Degrees Burning Best Things Sparks Steel End Times Feeding Spend Time

Author:RZA

“The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.”

Thinking Men Enough Wise Fame Despised

Author:Epicurus

“Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.”

Men Enough Wise Fool Satisfaction Good Enough Madmen

Author:Benjamin Whichcote

“Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.”

Ifs Knows Humans Littles Enough Problem Human Beings Cities Wise Serious Poison Mask Toxic Cigarette Packs Filters Smokers Smog

Author:Ray Comfort

“We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.”

Ifs Knows May Enough Purpose Wise Our Lives Accounts Perseverance Missions Fulfilled

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective.”

Thinking Men Looks Enough Young Spirit Half Wise Dangerous Experience Young Man Look Up Mistaken Sober Coldness

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink, to be me and not what I was expected to be. It was there that I learned it is blessed to receive, as well as that every human being, no matter how base, is worthy of my respect and even my envy because he knows something that I may never be old or wise or kind or tender enough to know.”

Knows Humans Wells Kind May Matter Enough Grows Human Beings Growing Up Study Wise Drink Blessed Worthy Envy Expected Making Love

Book:Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon

Source: Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon

“It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.”

Enough Wise Engaging Being Wise

Author:Ninon de L'Enclos

“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.”

Men Believe Enough Power Wise Groups Criticism Adequate Scrutiny

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“I think the American people are sophisticated enough and wise enough to make judgments about the candidates and wade through the charges and countercharges that come with the [election 2004] campaign.”

People Thinking Enough Wise Judgment Election Campaigns Candidates Sophisticated Wade

Author:Colin Powell

“To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.”

Knows Enough Fighting Speak Wise Our Lives Pride And Love Surround Corrections Rebuke

Author:Paul Washer

“No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.”

Humans Important War Enough Nations Peace Interest Wise Destruction Murder Justify Wholesale

Book:I Speak for Myself: The Autobiography of John Haynes Holmes

Source: I Speak for Myself: The Autobiography of John Haynes Holmes

“I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone.”

Ifs Knows Humans Enough Lasts Faces Death Wise Dog Loneliness Endure Finals Woods Distraction Going Out Scent Sentimental Trails Fear Of Death Compulsion

Author:James Thurber

“I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.”

Want War Enough Wise Describe Myself

Author:Norman Schwarzkopf

“I think 'Elbow' were considered successful even before [2008's] Seldom Seen Kid because we were living off the band. We have a great manager who keeps our coffers topped off, and we give ourselves a sensible wage with a view to having three fallow years between records. We always make sure we have enough money to make a record and not be pressured time-wise.”

Thinking Giving Years Enough Kids Three Views Successful Records Wise Band Managers Great Men Sensible Elbows Pressured Great Managers

Author:Guy Garvey

“If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.”

Ifs Men Want Enough Wise Figures Clever Intimidating What A Man Wants

Author:Oswald Spengler

“Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.”

Men Giving Enough Speak Wise Willing Fairs Trials Ignorant Sinner Skeptic Fair Trial

Author:Vance Havner

“There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.”

Way Should Sometimes Enough Shows Together Song Wise Patient Bottles Lightning Be Patient

Author:Ben Harper

“They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.”

Ifs Giving Heart Mean Littles Real Enough Belief Simple Teach Wise Dog Return Offers Late Models Mirrors Tricks Too Late Imaginary Humane Humane Society

Author:Marjorie Garber

“When we stop interfering and are wise enough to let the psychophysiological connection work for us instead of against us, our minds rush as quickly as possible towards perfect health.”

Mind Enough Perfect Wise Connections Interfere

Book:Creating Health: How to Wake Up the Body's Intelligence

Source: Creating Health: How to Wake Up the Body's Intelligence

“Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably don’t think about them at all. You experience them. You enjoy them. You learn from them. You’re inspired by them. They only become stories if someone is wise enough to share them. That’s when a story is born.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Stories Happens Enjoy Born Wise Share Happenings Inspired

Book:Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire

Source: Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire

“Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.”

Thinking Enough Beautiful Desire Wise Ignorance Ignorant Good Enough Lacking Love Wisdom

Author:Plato

“Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.”

People Ifs Wells Enough Character Spiritual Force Wise Influence Preserves Wilderness Continents Reserves Molding

Author:Sigurd F. Olson

“I was the kid in the class who was looking for the angles to question things or make wise-ass remarks, not knowing enough to be afraid of being myself or showing intelligence. But I wasn't the only kid like that in my classes because of where I grew up. I'm really thankful I grew up in a town where there were a lot of other mutant kids. I'm from Boulder, Colorado, which went through a lot of dramatic changes when I was growing up.”

Enough Kids Class Growing Up Knowing Wise Growing Grew Grew Up Towns Ass Dramatic Not Knowing Angle Remarks Colorado Being Myself Boulders Mutants Dramatic Change Wise Ass

Author:Jello Biafra

“The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black.”

People Mean Has Beens Enough Girl Black Born White Half Boys Wise Trouble Citizens Twisted Exhibitions One Half Lexicon Acrobatics

Author:Mary Church Terrell

“Beneath the makeup & behind the smile I'm just the girl who wishes for the world. A wise girl kisses, but doesn't love. Listens but dosen't believe. And leaves before she is left. If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”

Ifs World Needs Believe Enough Feelings Girl Left Wish Behinds Laughing Wise Kissing Makeup Not Alone Wise Girl Behind A Smile

Author:Marilyn Monroe

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