Quotes about wise
wise lying wrath
Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all. R. C. Sproul
wise men self
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control. Publilius Syrus
wise men decision
Wise man also fears a weak enemy.
wise wisdom who-we-are
It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.
wise men evil
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
wise men refuse
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
wise discovery grows
He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.
wise future men
The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.
wise latin complicated-relationship
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
wise gains mishaps
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
wise men thought-provoking
A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
wise wisdom men
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
wise fun crazy
Because you have very limited time and you have to be very judicious and wise about how you spend it. But otherwise, I've always been - ever since I was a kid, I've always been coming up with ideas. So I'm able to come up with crazy ideas twice for two collections! It's fun. Prabal Gurung
wise thinking problem
We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems. Prem Rawat
wise stars fall
Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise. Poul Anderson
wise men fool
Fools multiply when wise men are silent. Nelson Mandela
wise whole cycles
Wise it is to comprehend the whole. Neil Young
wise lying book
The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing, and any body of men says another, the wise man will decide, "This book is the Word of him who cannot lie". R. A. Torrey
wise men done
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity. Niccolo Machiavelli
wise men perfection
the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.
wise wisdom opportunity
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
wise men law
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.
wise mean government
A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.
wise advice shrewdness
A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.
wise men opinion
It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.
wise philosophical reality
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
wise past men
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
wise adversity blow
A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.
wise should rely
A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
wise italian cities
Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.
wise book men
The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer. Noah Webster
wise government cities
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back. Giacomo Casanova
wise men waiting
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.