Quotes about wise
wise sorry war
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. H. G. Wells
wise real men
The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. H. L. Mencken
wise gratitude flower
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.
wise men foolish-man
Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.
wise wisdom women
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
wise running wisdom
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
wise freedom men
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
wise writing said
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader Guillermo Cabrera Infante
wise clever believe
Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple…when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us… Guillermo del Toro
wise song artist
I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much. Greg Laswell
wise believe men
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert. J. Robert Oppenheimer
wise strong adversity
May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
wise brave valor
A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion. George Herbert
wise advise old-and-wise
Though old and wise, yet still advise.
wise hands mouths
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]
wise foolish
The least foolish is wise.
wise deeds
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
wise men errands
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]
wise
None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.
wise done would-be
If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
wise fool go-hard
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]
wise men enough
Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.
wise punishment faults
He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.
wise men care
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
wise wisdom
He who understands the wise is wise already. Georg C. Lichtenberg
wise wisdom stupid
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
wise courage blessing
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
wise mean judging
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
wise emotional self
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance. Friedrich Nietzsche
wise dirty snakes
Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
wise hands wish
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
wise communication epic
A word to the wise is infuriating. Hunter S. Thompson
wise wisdom want
How we feel is how we want to be heard. Hugo von Hofmannsthal