Mary Stewart Quotes

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Good counsel is good for him that will do thereafter.

You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

If we still advise we shall never do.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

What is common sense isn't common practice.

Valor by itself may be respected but without wisdom and calculation it does not lead anywhere.

There is great strength in acting boldly but there is also great strength in not acting if the time is not right.

What is permitted is not always wise.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.