Quotes about wise
wise men want
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good. Josh Billings
wise men thinking
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.
wise aging folks
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
wise wisdom men
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
wise confidence men
Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.
wise learning experience
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
wise men doe
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
wise stupidity-and-ignorance folks
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
wise men ideals
Make the wise man within you your living ideal. Karl G. Maeser
wise philosophy mean
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth....Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question. Karl Jaspers
wise men advice
The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. Karen Kingsbury
wise ignorance men
A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee. Joseph Conrad
wise men sailing
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
wise dad children
My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first. Leona Lewis
wise men chaos
Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind. Leonard Cohen
wise way eras
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being. Laz Alonso
wise eye two
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes. Langston Hughes
wise sports player
The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win. John Kessel
wise wisdom pride
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats
wise wall responsibility
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them. John Kenneth Galbraith
wise economics scope
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.
wise rain law
We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of nature to provide for the various exigencies of the sublunary creation, and to make the several parts dependent upon each other, so as to form one well-regulated system or whole. John Dalton
wise loyalty fall
Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
wise pride wise-words
My word is my pride, the wisdom is weak, and that's word from the wise. Lil Wayne
wise long television
Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something. Gary Cole
wise age employment
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments. Lyndon B. Johnson
wise spring heart
Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
wise inspiration patriotic
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
wise decision choices
Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of. Ludacris
wise moments ends
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. Lucian
wise strong disappointment
If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way. Loretta Young
wise grief sorrow
Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge. Lord Byron
wise men bars
Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.