Quotes about wise
wise photography teaching
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. William Blake
wise wisdom horse
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. William Blake
wise wisdom stupid
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. William Blake
wise football stopping
There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning. Wayne Rooney
wise religious thinking
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious. Samuel Richardson
wise trusting-him judging
The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question. Samuel Richardson
wise book
The wise are above books. Samuel Daniel
wise ideas history
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wise hard-times glitter
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. Samuel Lover
wise long decision
So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims. Samuel Gompers
wise wine men
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. Salvador Dali
wise thinking video
I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio. Rudolfo Anaya
wise carpe-diem expression
When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made. Rudolf Steiner
wise men people
All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise. Vincent Bugliosi
wise fool
The fool inherits, but the wise must get. William Cartwright
wise blessed self
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed. William Congreve
wise cheer grateful
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please. William Congreve
wise procrastination delay
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise. William Congreve
wise rain rivers
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters. William Cowper
wise kings war
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. William Cowper
wise baby kings
But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world. William Cowper
wise wisdom nice
Some people are more nice than wise. William Cowper
wise unique stupidity
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. Vartan Gregorian
wise eye animal
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees. Ursula K. Le Guin
wise use
What good is power when you're too wise to use it? Ursula K. Le Guin
wise ends claims
To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good. Ursula K. Le Guin
wise fool vain
The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain. Ursula K. Le Guin
wise cuba fighter
Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters Roberto Duran
wise knowledge missing
They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways, but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others. Robertson Davies
wise thinking trying
I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question. Robertson Davies
wise men two
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one. Robertson Davies
wise blue hands
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves. Robertson Davies
wise men mind
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.