Quotes about wise
wise wall heart
I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds." That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships. Neal A. Maxwell
wise self goal
Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.
wise learning views
Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.
wise men self
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.
wise men literature
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? Muhammad Iqbal
wise greatness knowing
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. Muhammad Ali
wise science men
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. Martin Luther King, Jr.
wise men fool
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
wise father giving
Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for. Mark Batterson
wise grief adversity
We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief. Marguerite Yourcenar
wise mother eye
My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own. Maria Edgeworth
wise men wise-man-once-said
As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are. Mike Brady
wise decisions-we-make parent
I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important. Naomi Scott
wise men mystery
Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them Miriam Makeba
wise biblical thinking
If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold of and use the Holy Spirit; but if we think of Him in the biblical way as a divine Person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then our thought will constantly be, 'How can the Holy Spirit get hold of and use me?' R. A. Torrey
wise lying wrath
Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all. R. C. Sproul
wise men self
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control. Publilius Syrus
wise men decision
Wise man also fears a weak enemy.
wise wisdom who-we-are
It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.
wise men evil
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
wise men refuse
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
wise discovery grows
He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.
wise future men
The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.
wise latin complicated-relationship
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
wise gains mishaps
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
wise men thought-provoking
A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
wise wisdom men
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
wise fun crazy
Because you have very limited time and you have to be very judicious and wise about how you spend it. But otherwise, I've always been - ever since I was a kid, I've always been coming up with ideas. So I'm able to come up with crazy ideas twice for two collections! It's fun. Prabal Gurung
wise thinking problem
We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems. Prem Rawat
wise stars fall
Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise. Poul Anderson
wise perfect doubt
Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method... Leonhard Euler
wise country lying
We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing. Leonardo DiCaprio
wise art sleep
O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead? Leonardo da Vinci