Quotes about wise
wise country gun
A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition... is always a wise institution, and, in the present circumstances of our country, indispensable. John Adams
wise emotional design
It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend about adolescents. . . . That they do not confide in us is hardly surprising. They use wise discretion in disguising themselves with the caricatures we design for them. And unfortunately for us, as for them, too often adolescents retain the caricatured personalities they had merely meant to try on for size. Louise J. Kaplan
wise heart trying
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try. Louise Erdrich
wise wisdom ignorance
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. George Bancroft
wise ignorance men
A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts. James Allen
wise kings men
Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death. Jacoby Shaddix
wise mean support
I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business Jacob Zuma
wise mean people
We're not forcing people... you can support and be a supporter, but if you go beyond that and become a member, [and] if you're a businessman, your business will multiply... Everything you touch will multiply. I've always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC... because supporting the ANC means you're investing very well in your business.
wise smart wiser
Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart. Jacque Fresco
wise war fall
I want my fellow citizens to wise up and stop falling for [war]. I try with my limited access, I'm not getting into Kabul with a camera, they're not letting me get into Benghazi with a camera. I do what I can with my flimsy American passport and a visa. The photos are a bit more heavy from Southern Sudan and Haiti and Cuba. Henry Rollins
wise long comfort
I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.
wise book writing
As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in different forms and shapes. I don't know if I'm any good at it I just really go for it and I'm very prolific book wise only because I own the company. No one tells me 'no' around here.
wise wings cracks
Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has to remember that it was the first experience. And in a Republican administration, there is a conservative wing that looks at China as the last embodiment of communism, which therefore tends towards a more bellicose rhetoric anyway than I would. It's not the dominant element, but every once in a while they get a crack at public statement. Henry A. Kissinger
wise strong order
You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.
wise fighting thinking
Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.
wise views judging
While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another. Hazrat Inayat Khan
wise men goal
The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.
wise art secret
What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony of the whole universe which is working behind everything, and which is the source and origin of nature. It is because of this that the wise of all ages have considered music to be a sacred art. For in music the seer can see the picture of the whole universe; and the wise can interpret the secret and nature of the working of the whole universe in the realm of music.
wise mean soul
There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
wise nature attention
When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.
wise views soul
... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.
wise heart men
The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.
wise silence dignity
Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
wise justice endure
That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right. Henry George
wise wisdom taken
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it. Hedy Lamarr
wise dream light
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but everywhere a substratum of good sense. It never reflects, but it repents. There is no poetry in it, we may say, nothing regarded in the light of beauty merely, but moral truth is its object. All mortals are convicted by its conscience. Henry David Thoreau
wise wisdom ignorance
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
wise wisdom men
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
wise book reading
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
wise silly tree
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
wise men voting
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
wise book reading
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
wise wisdom business
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.