Quotes about wise
wise men thinking
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life. Aphra Behn
wise running men
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay. Edmund Spenser
wise men deceit
What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in visor fair, And cast her colours dyed deep in grain, To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign, And fitting gestures to her purpose frame, The guiltless man with guile to entertain?
wise business bears
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them? Edmund Burke
wise art stars
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere. Charles Fort
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 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 art knowledge
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility. Aristotle
wise humor men
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
wise men details
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
wise pain philosophical
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
wise writing men
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
wise men thinking
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.
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 philosophy hero
It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
wise
During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally.
wise pain cutting
Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes. Anna Jameson
wise educational men
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. Adlai Stevenson
wise war men
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
wise travel men
The fool wanders, a wise man travels. Thomas Fuller
wise long soul
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness. Stephen Jay Gould
wise men order
Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind. Orson Scott Card
wise children reading
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. Robert Southey
wise jobs looks
The poor look for jobs while the rich build networks Robert Kiyosaki
wise funny-life short-life
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Douglas Adams
wise years etc
You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so. Doris Lessing
wise men fool
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
wiser-you wiser
As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.