Quotes about wise
wise people form
Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people. Henning Mankell
wise lying rain
Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them white or black, when I am not interested in the world around. When I come back from this isolation of the news, I realize that I have missed nothing significant. We live in the rain of disinformation and rumors, where the truth is a very small number. In those weeks of dissociation I seek for knowledge that lies within me.
wise disappointment brave
To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted. Helen Keller
wise issues justice
The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
wise enough imperialism
No nation is wise enough to rule another.
wise teaching men
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. Cat Stevens
wise attitude thinking
Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-" He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know." "I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you." "That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it," said Jace, looking gratified. Cassandra Clare
wise running wisdom
nothing ventured, nothing gained.
wise real ems
...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't. George Eliot
wise mistake source
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
wise men probability
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
wise lying reflection
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.
wise book half
Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
wise believe fire
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
wise men empty
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
wise
Full wise is he that can himselven knowe. Geoffrey Chaucer
wise wisdom school
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
wise wisdom husband
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
wise tree describing
Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything. Gabourey Sidibe
wise years together
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
wise men fool
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. Franz Schubert
wise technology thinking
I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise. Frank Grillo
wise strong growing-up
We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it. Frank Pittman
wise action courses
It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it. George Jackson
wise men idiot
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. George Jean Nathan
wise artist mind
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
wise men together
Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together. George Herbert
wise men purpose
A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.
wise fashion harm
There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
wise men law
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
wise thinking world
I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her. J. Cole
wise children men
He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last. J. C. Ryle
wise mean challenges
I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new. Isabel Lucas