Quotes about wise
wise men differences
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise fate beer
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten? Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise wisdom skepticism
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had? Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise stars winning
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise simplicity analysis
The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise people judgment
We are all wise for other people, none for himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise serenity aim
The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise moon men
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise stars children
THE POET 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: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise home men
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise simple prosperity
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise rope sand
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise excess fool
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise men taste
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise life-and-love today
Let us be poised, wise and our own today. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise wisdom men
Wise men are not wise at all times. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise men weak-points
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise men ends
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise true-friend character
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise book reading
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise school knowledge
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise men foolish-man
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise ignorance men
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise book men
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise real men
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise wisdom war
In every war, there are always elements of blindness. Shimon Peres
wise three fats
If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat. Shimon Peres
wise morning book
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise. Shimon Peres
wise gay men
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live. Sean O'Casey
wise integrity rights
I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long as we allow a review of the judicial processes that takes place here in some other tribunal where obviously undue influence cannot be brought to bear. As long as governments are wise enough to leave alone the rights of appeal to some superior body outside Singapore, then there must be a higher degree of confidence in the integrity of our judicial process. This is most important. Lee Kuan Yew
wise wisdom humanity
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity. Laura Schlessinger
wise ignorance character
Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.
wise men fool
A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.