Quotes about wise
wise country bombs
The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God. Phyllis Schlafly
wise thinking shadow
Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build Phoebe Cary
wise watches world
A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me. Philip Yancey
wise responsibility dimensions
Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which are based on perennial values, such as hospitality, solidarity, and the sharing of the toil of labor. Pope Benedict XVI
wise evil world
When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils. Monica Crowley
wise serenity aim
The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise men principles
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. Marcus Aurelius
wise reality views
One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons Thomas a Kempis
wise mean men
A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
wise peace humble
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
wise reading successful
We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state. Thomas A. Edison
wise men fool
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
wise men mind
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times. Thomas Aquinas
wise men electric-power
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
wise book men
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.
wise animal moon
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.
wise way eras
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being. Laz Alonso
wise dog men
When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it. Peter Kreeft
wise reality men
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
wise strong ignorance
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty Phyllis Bottome
wise silly writing
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites. Philip Pullman
wise men silence
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. Pythagoras
wise country pride
A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past. Joseph Howe
wise spiritual art
The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
wise time delay
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. Ovid
wise guitar imagination
The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really. Jimmy Page
wise believe color
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about? Lucy Maud Montgomery
wise mistake responsibility
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them. John F. Kennedy
wise writing thinking
Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work again, even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along. But for me, I freak out - because I'm a bit of a workaholic - the second I finish a movie going oh my god, what am I going to do, but I can start writing the next day so it doesn't force me to make a bad choice acting-wise. Jonah Hill
wise wisdom sometimes
He who hesitates is sometimes wise. Malcolm Forbes
wise mother father
My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time. Mackenzie Phillips
wise competition underestimate
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
wise wisdom time
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.