Quotes about wise
wise song writing
I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style-wise. R&B, rock 'n' roll, screamers, pop, good-time songs. Taryn Manning
wise buffets against-love
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me. Sophocles
wise men oedipus
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise
wise men submission-to-god
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
wise wisdom men
Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
wise wisdom past
The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.
wise wisdom age
There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.
wise knives doctors
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
wise thinker
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
wise wisdom loss
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
wise wisdom men
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
wise player luck
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
wise men advice
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
wise book library
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower. Stephen King
wise men facts
When facts speak, the wise man listens.
wise might able
Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.
wise kids wise-words
stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE
wise stupid guy
Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
wise adventure magic
Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control. Starhawk
wise country race
Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless. Thomas Malthus
wise mean eye
We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth. Thomas Carlyle
wise men should-have
Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
wise mind speech
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
wise teaching virtuous
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
wise lying science
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.
wise environmental foolish
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
wise eye history
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
wise science important
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
wise distance character
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
wise men half
God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
wise men foolish-man
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
wise knows
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
wise heaven soul
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!