Quotes about wise
wise simple prosperity
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise rope sand
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
wise excess fool
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
wise men taste
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
wise life-and-love today
Let us be poised, wise and our own today.
wise wisdom men
Wise men are not wise at all times.
wise men weak-points
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
wise men ends
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
wise true-friend character
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
wise book reading
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
wise school knowledge
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
wise men foolish-man
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
wise ignorance men
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
wise book men
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
wise real men
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
wise wisdom war
In every war, there are always elements of blindness. Shimon Peres
wise three fats
If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.
wise morning book
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.
wise gay men
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live. Sean O'Casey
wise integrity rights
I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long as we allow a review of the judicial processes that takes place here in some other tribunal where obviously undue influence cannot be brought to bear. As long as governments are wise enough to leave alone the rights of appeal to some superior body outside Singapore, then there must be a higher degree of confidence in the integrity of our judicial process. This is most important. Lee Kuan Yew
wise wisdom humanity
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity. Laura Schlessinger
wise ignorance character
Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.
wise men fool
A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.
wise running winning
If you're running to be president of the United States, you can't just tell people you're going to make America great again. I think you need to begin to explain exactly how you're going to do it policy-wise. We're not going to win a general election with a candidate that refuses to detail policy. Marco Rubio
wise men principles
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. Marcus Aurelius
wise deeds being-wise
Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
wise cutting men
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
wise heart men
Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.
wise humor deep-thought
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
wise philosophical math
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
wise men should
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
wise lying wellspring
Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.
wise blue hands
But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases. Marc Chagall