Quotes about wise
wise men competition
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. Washington Allston
wise wisdom
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire
wise adversity men
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
wise daughter mother
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
wise thinking heaven
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
wise pure do-the-best
We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.
wise things-happen
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
wise fierce severe
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
wise men knowing
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited. William Feather
wise age fables
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
wise witty philosophy
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
wise men relative-value
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. William Ralph Inge
wise wisdom common-sense
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
wise community age
Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted. William C. Bryant
wise angel godly
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. William Butler Yeats
wise wisdom suffering
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
wise wisdom writing
Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
wise heart eye
The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"
wise running stars
Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. 'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.' Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.
wise daughter stars
A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.
wise queens women
Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens....
wise running stars
Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon..
wise book thinking
When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.
wise hands storm
Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.
wise patience needs
Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
wise daughter mother
For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise. Will Allison
wise men fool
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out. Wilkie Collins
wise men humanity
You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder. Wilhelm Reich
wise inspiration humility
How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service. Walter Russell
wise desire belief
It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires. Walter Savage Landor
wise praise applause
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
wise power political
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
wise opinion knows
We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.