Quotes about wise
wise trouble public-speaking
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. George Bernard Shaw
wise art errors
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error. Gelett Burgess
wise men discovery
Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations. Galileo Galilei
wise father differences
I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.
wise modest ready
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
wise thinking men
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. Frederick William Faber
wise christian names
Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.
wise looks way
What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement ... and the manly and wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made of them. Frederick William Robertson
wise wisdom children
The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.
wise men honor
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
wise thinking mind
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? Freeman Dyson
wise opportunity achievement
We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future? Jawaharlal Nehru
wise acting scared
I like to be challenged acting wise and I like to do things that I'm scared of. Jason Segel
wise kindness ravens
Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness. Hannah Kent
wise art mind
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise. Guy Pearce
wise people choices
Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one. Guy Kawasaki
wise smoking drug
I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack. Ginnifer Goodwin
wise love-you blow
Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. Gerry Rafferty
wise law people
The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people. Gregory Bateson
wise men use
Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.
wise needs popularity
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise. Indira Gandhi
wise thinking light
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about Ingmar Bergman
wise new-experiences going-away
As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter. Jack Kornfield
wise spiritual real
If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love....
wise spiritual and-love
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
wise spiritual heart
The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom. Jack Canfield
wise prayer mean
God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion. J. I. Packer
wise may want
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things. Israel Zangwill
wise smart heart
Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart. Jack Ma
wise men judging-yourself
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
wise forever action
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise. Bill Crawford
wise african-american wise-words
A word to the wise ain't... Bill Cosby
wise heart victory
Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.