Quotes about wise
wise ignorance ignorant
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.] Jean de La Fontaine
wise knowledge fool
Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
wise chinese relation
It is not wise [for Chinese] to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S. Jiang Zemin
wise doubt might
Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it. Groucho Marx
wise being-wise young
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy. Graham Greene
wise mean men
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men Gifford Pinchot
wise fear self
Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to resist the impulse to act. It can help us to make wise, self-protective choices in and out of relationships where we might otherwise sail mindlessly along, ignoring signs of trouble. Harriet Lerner
wise views trials
[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation. Harriet Martineau
wise people southern
It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you. Harper Lee
wise writing careers
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
wise cracked hepburn
Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn. Hallie Ephron
wise mother children
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. Halldor Laxness
wise white-hair age
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. Gregory Corso
wise war home
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not. Gregory Maguire
wise patience reality
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. Homer
wise wine vineyards
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
wise thinking people
I don't think I'm lucky; I think I have a tough constitution. That's a lot of it. And I've been wise enough to listen to other people. I was unconsciously cultivating as many straight friends as I could. Iggy Pop
wise sexy powerful
We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise. Ian Somerhalder
wise genius world
But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way. Hugh Grant
wise suicide moving
The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn. Huey Newton
wise witty real
The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad. Howard Gossage
wise religious men
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings. Hosea Ballou
wise joy affliction
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
wise writing thinking
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. Horace
wise future darkness
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
wise character passion
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
wise war men
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
wise thinking yield
There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth. Hannah Arendt
wise baby kings
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles? George R. R. Martin
wise mother grief
If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know you did for love. For Arya and Sansa, and out of grief for Bran and Rickon. Love’s not always wise, I’ve learned. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts... wherever they take us. Don’t we, Mother?
wise fear laughter
Laughter is poison to fear.
wise men opposites
Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites? George Carlin
wise wisdom memories
The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.