Quotes about wise
wise money waiting
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. Lee Iacocca
wise food two
It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over. Laurie Colwin
wise men cynical
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. L. Ron Hubbard
wise men relax
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work. Thomas Aquinas
wise wisdom powerful
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
wise ignorance issues
According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues. Leo Strauss
wise meaningful men
The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
wise overcoming-addiction special
Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one. Leo Buscaglia
wise teacher jesus
If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life. Lee Strobel
wise discipline band
It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline. Lew Wallace
wise justice unjust
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.
wise blessing water-of-life
If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise. Lewis H. Lapham
wise would-be wonderland
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? Lewis Carroll
wise fall order
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. Joseph Story
wise liars dumb
It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum Joseph Heller
wise smart men
Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was the cadet officers; tomorrow it might be the world. Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. Such men were dangerous, and even the new cadet officers whom Clevinger had helped into office were eager to give damning testimony against him. The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.
wise courage jobs
I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen. Joseph Campbell
wise unique doe
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. Karl Shapiro
wise powerful men
Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue. Joyce Brothers
wise confused stupid
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? Jules Feiffer
wise made
Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured. Josh Billings
wise men solitude
A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.
wise men profit
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
wise men want
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
wise men thinking
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.
wise aging folks
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
wise wisdom men
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
wise confidence men
Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.
wise learning experience
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
wise men doe
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
wise stupidity-and-ignorance folks
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
wise men ideals
Make the wise man within you your living ideal. Karl G. Maeser
wise philosophy mean
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth....Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question. Karl Jaspers