Quotes about wise
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 lying wine
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
wise men talking
Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth. Oliver Cromwell
wise new-york ocean
You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other? O. Henry
wise powerful mean
By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons. Norman Vincent Peale
wise interesting insightful
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
wise tired ducks
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
wise art imagination
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
wise lying paris
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles. Emile Zola
wise men novelty
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. Emile M. Cioran
wise what-matters care
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow. Epictetus
wise extraordinary-person wish
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
wise trying seems
Do not try to seem wise to others.
wise men self
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found. Epicurus
wise men honor
The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.
wise men reason
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
wise men doe
The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
wise wisdom men
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.
wise thinking men
The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.
wise wisdom philosophical
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
wise wisdom men
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
wise determination writing
Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom do you admire? What are their special traits that you would make your own It's time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to become wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become. If you have a daybook, write down who you're trying to be, so that you can refer to this self-determination. Precisely describe the demeanor you want to adopt so that you may preserve it when you are by yourself or with other people.
wise realizing
The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.
wise men air
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
wise men mind
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
wise patience philosophical
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
wise wisdom stupid
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.