Quotes about wise
wise wish answers
If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
wise wisdom men
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
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.
wise dream attitude
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
wise jobs stress
I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good. Joe Torre
wise consistency way
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances. John C. Calhoun
wise men trying
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. James Truslow Adams
wise decision incentives
Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom. James Taranto
wise wisdom make-sense
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. James Thurber
wise asking-questions shells
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell. James Stephens
wise smart independent
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise. James Surowiecki
wise strong enough
I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds. James Nesbitt
wise carpe-diem years
To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise. James Montgomery
wise kindness ideas
We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs. James McGreevey
wise teaching mean
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. James Monroe
wise mean patriotic
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.
wise mean exercise
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
wise men games
It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man. Johann Kaspar Lavater
wise children writing
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things. Harlan Ellison
wise may peculiar
The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional. John Marshall
wise conservatism ideals
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal. John Maynard Keynes
wise morbidity possession
The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
wise gold revolution
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
wise successful investing
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
wise morning rain
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
wise hate film
I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise. John Malkovich
wise nature mean
Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation. John Locke
wise inspire musician
To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you. John Legend
wise art thinking
If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many. John Lancaster Spalding
wise sacrifice law
If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.
wise tongue experts
A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue. John le Carre
wise thinking people
People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.
wise smart self
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones. Jimmy Buffett