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wise laughter people
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset Charles Dickens
wise men may
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. Charles Caleb Colton
wise money thinking
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise art moments
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise foolish gravity
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
wise men littles
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
wise men darkness
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.
wise men mediocrity
There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.
understanding vietnam realizing
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. Alan Moore
understanding important president
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. Dean Acheson
understanding criticism taste
Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment. David Hume
understanding want prudent
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future. Dee Hock
understanding affair reason
You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small Carlos Castaneda
understanding mind wish
I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station! Charlotte Lamb
understanding world rounds
The world only goes round by misunderstanding. Charles Baudelaire
understanding information moments
Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens. Charlie Kaufman
understanding gold hoarding
I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk. Charlie Munger
faces oppression print
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face? Audre Lorde
faces firsts
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong. Bertolt Brecht
faces scientist eternity
Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets, Carolyn Porco
faces circumstances
Circumstances alter faces. Carolyn Wells
faces
No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces C. S. Lewis
faces rooms your-face
A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room. Aaron Sorkin
faces improvement
Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.
faces bugs done
I've done nothing I'm ashamed of. Nothing I couldn't face God with. I wouldn't kill a bug. Charles Manson
faces taught students
I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist? Bill Ayers