Wise Choices Quotes

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.

It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

In my house, education was the paramount value. And if you grew up in a neighborhood like mine, you were forced to decide early on what you stood for in life, because there were a lot of peer pressures that could take you the wrong way.

Good men make good decisions.

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

Being prudent does not mean being fearful.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

There's a difference between having an edge and being stupid.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.