Quotes about wise
wise feelings risk
Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut. Daniel Kahneman
wise children men
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth. Czeslaw Milosz
wise pain book
There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite the same as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.
wise wisdom funeral
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. D. H. Lawrence
wise stupid war
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. Sun Tzu
wise loss safety
Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live. Alexander Meiklejohn
wise congress
Freedom is always wise.
wise cutting editors
My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it. Alexander Payne
wise effort madness
True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, "I will not be afraid; "it is wisdom and peace to say, "I will trust and not be afraid. Alexander MacLaren
wise cheat frailty
Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise. Alexander Pope
wise fate law
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
wise bears merit
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
wise pain eye
No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?
wise kings order
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.
wise pain women
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
wise coffee eye
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
wise coffee eye
For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
wise doubt mind
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
wise army skills
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
wise long age
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
wise dream sky
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
wise lying pride
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
wise lying stupid
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
wise father son
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
wise brave profanity
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
wise night evil
What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
wise wisdom littles
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
wise giving deny
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
wise kings character
Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
wise honesty women
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
wise wisdom whole
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
wise men suffering
We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it. Alex Haley
wise time simple
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is. Albert Schweitzer