Quotes about wise
wise flower civilization
Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise men hair
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
wise thinking doubt
[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
wise spiritual art
The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
wise men looks
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
wise song men
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
wise plato regret
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
wise fall hero
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.
wise struggle desire
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
wise gratitude nature
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
wise wisdom taken
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
wise men silence
We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.
wise men hair
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play! Lin Yutang
wise philosophy believe
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
wise men busy
The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.
wise reading book
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
wise busy too-busy
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
wise thinking attorney
I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney, if the attorney thinks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you. Lee Harvey Oswald
wise money waiting
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. Lee Iacocca
wise food two
It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over. Laurie Colwin
wise men cynical
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. L. Ron Hubbard
wise men relax
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work. Thomas Aquinas
wise wisdom powerful
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
wise jesus men
Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise man, did indeed exist. Terry Pratchett
wise men feet
They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .
wise silence soul
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.
wise kings strikes
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
wise wisdom intelligence
Life is a festival only to the wise.
wise children philosophical
A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.
wise plato philosophical
Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
wise future past
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.
wise men alliances
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.
wise home men
The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.