#wise

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. ↗

— Joseph Story

#because #betray #citizens #councils #created

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously. ↗

— Boy George

#believe #choice #get #goal #i

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#conceited #differently #even #him #himself

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#chambers #colour #enchanted #every #face

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#being #belief #believes #bit #blood

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#bad taste #being #funeral #like #perpetual

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#behaviour #gives #greedy #i #i think

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart. ↗

— Norman Lear

#american people #best-educated #heart #may #people

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#attempt #behavior #constitutes #death #inner

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. ↗

— Harper Lee

#many #only #profit #receive #wise