Quotes about wise
wise nerd fool
The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither Nassim Nicholas Taleb
wise government temptation
Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account. N. T. Wright
wise mother jesus
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need or could have of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which, under the sovereign and wise rule of the creator God, decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.
wise real ocean
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly. Miranda July
wise silly book
After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.
wise why-not wise-words
When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it. Mignon McLaughlin
wise drinking blow
Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else, be wise. John Wilmot
wise kings promise
God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
wise son men
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures. John Woolman
wise intelligent effort
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved. John Ruskin
wise men wisest-man
The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
wise law liberty
Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.
wise heart littles
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
wise book reading
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.
wise suicide two
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink. Mark Twain
wise stupid men
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.
wise fall intelligent
Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise. Marianne Williamson
wise powerful prayer
Each of us is born with an internal navigational system. The thinking of the world has a way of switching the system off, but we can always turn it on again through prayer, meditation and forgiveness. Doing this puts us back on track in our lives, making us wise, convicted and powerful.
wise spiritual wisdom
Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.
wise strong men
We won't make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker, as a very wise man once said. That applies to the economy as well. If Germany were less competitive, the euro area as a whole would lose, because less could be produced then. Mario Draghi
wise aphorism considering
Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise. Mason Cooley
wise wisdom two
To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.
wise fit enough
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit. Mary Astell
wise real lying
Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken. Michael A. Stackpole
wise loving-life people
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. Menander
wise intelligent men
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you are wise and civilized men; an instant suffices to disturb and annihilate that supposed wisdom of which you are so proud; an unexpected event, a sharp and sudden emotion of the soul will abruptly change the most reasonable and intelligent man into a raving idiot. Michel Foucault
wise people boss
If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out. Michael Josephson
wise song thinking
I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen. Mark Ronson
wise philosophy men
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched. Oscar Wilde
wise destiny superstitions
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
wise understanding looks
To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
wise terror symbols
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
wise men world
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.