Quotes about wise
wise men two
A wise man hears one word and understands two. Edgar Allan Poe
wise heart helping-others
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others. Elbert Hubbard
wise learning space
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible. Edsger Dijkstra
wise pain philosophical
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. Aristotle
wise writing men
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
wise teaching men
No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master. Ben Jonson
wise men may
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
wise vegas guy
When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great. Don Rickles
wise giving-up fate
If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: "I'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance." Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity. But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: "What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade? Dale Carnegie
wise thinking people
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.
wise men everyday
Everyday is a new life to a wise man.
wise witty people
People don't buy from clowns. Claude C. Hopkins
wise war preparation
It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war. Clara Barton
wise wisdom men
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. Claude Levi-Strauss
wise wisdom men
Wise men still seek Him today.
wise thinking meditation
What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that. Dan Harris
wise two feet
Yoda is interesting because, in addition to being wise, he is two feet tall, and a Yoda. Dan Harmon
wise positive-thinking humble
Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise! Cory Booker
wise giving helping
Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
wise opportunity different
Maybe I was cast into a different role (in Montreal) and it seemed to follow me around wherever I went, ... Everyone is skeptical until you produce. It's up to me from this point forward. I'm going to get an opportunity to maybe take on a bigger role leadership-wise and offensively. Darcy Tucker
wise laughing people
Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise e. e. cummings
wise liars broken
let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love
wise men vines
A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis. E. B. White
wise dark tangible
Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.
wise character ideas
Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I. Adolf Hitler
wise military men
For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.
wise men promise
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. Adam Clarke
wise religious light
And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well. Abraham Lincoln
wise hands justice
May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
wise writing air
My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page. Ani Difranco
wise cranky i-can
I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky. Andy Griffith
wise young jaded
It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded. Ally Carter
wise strong uncles
Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie