Quotes about wise
wise wisdom people
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event. Kenneth Tynan
wise horse adventure
When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure. Julia Cameron
wise order firsts
Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.
wise design tree
Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.
wise book passing-moments
A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.
wise light creative
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.
wise art essence
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
wise sorrow
Everything is sorrow for the wise. Patanjali
wise men thinking
I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights. Pat Robertson
wise travel men
The wise traveler [to Beirut] will pack shirts or blouses with ample breast pockets. Reaching inside a jacket for your passport looks too much like going for the draw and puts armed men out of countinence P. J. O'Rourke
wise wisdom may
If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows. Ovid
wise thinking compelling-reason
The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people? Paul Nitze
wise zero
To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero. Matthew Fox
wise thinking people
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. Mary Wortley Montagu
wise innovation prejudice
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation. Mary Wollstonecraft
wise men feet
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet
wise eye mind
Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I. Martha Beck
wise teaching ignorance
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife? Marion Zimmer Bradley
wise taken advice
Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation. Maria Monk
wise art character
Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this: and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, an encourage it in others. Patrick Henry
wise mother grandma
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. Pam Brown
wise horse equestrian
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.
wise kings hands
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist. Joseph Joubert
wise fashion often-is
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
wise stars prayer
The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal rights as appears in said Constitution, ought to be treated by those to whom the administration of the laws is entrusted with as much sanctity as the prayers of the Saints are treated in heaven, that love, confidence, and union, like the sun, moon, and stars, should bear witness, Joseph Smith, Jr.
wise country true-friend
We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor of the government as you know we are all friends to the Constitution yea true friends to that Country for which our fathers bled.
wise country freedom
Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country; observe its principles; and above all, show yourselves men of God, worthy citizens.
wise godly men
Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward. A good man will endure all things to honor Christ, and even dispose of the whole world, and all in it, to save his soul.
wise men hands
The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.
wise character men
God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret.... It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know... that he was once a man like us.... Here, then, is eternal life - to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves... the same as all Gods have done before you...
wise wisdom prayer
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
wise people kind
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy. Kristin Bauer van Straten
wise believe states
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable Murray Rothbard