Quotes about wise
wise clever people
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Emil Nolde
wise giving mastery
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness.
wise men knowing
The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty. Emile Durkheim
wise perseverance may
We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not. Ellen Swallow Richards
wise fall color
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. Edward Thorndike
wise distribution-of-power trials
Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial. Edward Coke
wise horse writing
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident. Edward Dahlberg
wise heart men
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom) Edith Hamilton
wise loneliness men
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. Hermann Hesse
wise squares games
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.
wise school people
In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.
wise mother mean
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute.
wise wisdom men
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
wise men grace
A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
wise writing doors
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
wise men pondering
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw. Hesiod
wise men night
Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus
wise wisdom men
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
wise boys youth-of-today
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
wise men misunderstood
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good. Helen Rowland
wise wisdom sassy
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
wise men motivational-sales
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Heinrich Heine
wise witty philosophical
Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.
wise men talking
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
wise kings pigs
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. Hilaire Belloc
wise names zeus
The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus. Heraclitus
wise listening all-things
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
wise agree all-things
It is wise to agree that all things are one.
wise wisdom men
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
wise sorry adversity
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us Henry Ward Beecher
wise fall looks
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
wise mistake men
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant.
wise spiritual sorry
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.