If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Thomas Fuller

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
Polykarp Kusch

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.
Richard Rolle

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
Lafcadio Hearn

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
Ted Kulongoski

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Makepeace Thackeray

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
Epicurus

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
Samuel Butler

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel Johnson

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
William Gilmore Simms

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
Whitney M. Young

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich