Quotes about wise
wise food men
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Ambrose Bierce
wise writing thinking
A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.
wise men fool
Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
wise fashion ridicule
Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
wise believe thinking
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
wise buddhist religion
NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.
wise medicine long
Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish. Anna Quindlen
wise motivation inspiration
the shell must break before the bird can fly. Alfred Lord Tennyson
wise wisdom thinking
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. Alfred Austin
wise witty thinking
Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
wise presidential welfare
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests. Andrew Johnson
wise blow wind
Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen. Amy Tan
wise eye home
One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home on it. I sold three years after I completed the building and more than doubled my money. I like Richmond and always have my eyes open for other properties in the area. Anthea Turner
wise brother wine
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers. Anthony Burgess
wise home challenges
Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me. Andy Serkis
wise believe successful
It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants. Alexis de Tocqueville
wise wisdom attitude
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. Albert Schweitzer
wise men two
A wise man hears one word and understands two. Edgar Allan Poe
wise doubters catchy
The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
wise wisdom men
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
wise opportunity giving
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs. Elbert Hubbard
wise men clouds
Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
wise men weak-man
When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.
wise heart helping-others
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
wise people leader
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? Eleanor Roosevelt
wise religious attitude
The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the past in Europe and other world areas, I think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions.
wise believe men
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.
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 men astrology
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. Edward Abbey
wise men sight
No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
wise wisdom men
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
wise men tongue
The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day. Aristotle
wise knowledge learning
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.