#wise

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. ↗

— Paul Engle

#wisdom #wise #you

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#direct #english #heart #how #i

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#hear #important #material #musicians #people

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#enemy #friend #ignorant #nothing #preferred

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

#book #cover #else #enough #fact

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#activate #choice #choices #create #creation

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. ↗

— Criss Jami

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

The fool wanders, a wise man travels. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#man #travels #wanders #wise #wise man

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

#certain #characters #doubts #excepting #existence

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#failed #i #i always #i think #loved