Quotes about wise
wise football stopping
There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning. Wayne Rooney
wise religious thinking
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious. Samuel Richardson
wise trusting-him judging
The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
wise people annoyed
Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way. William Graham Sumner
wise men satisfied
The wise man is satisfied with nothing. William Godwin
wise men liberty
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
wise thinking trouble
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. William Golding
wise fall heart
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
wise expression law
You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive. William Allen White
wise guy littles
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. William Arthur Ward
wise time learning
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
wise life-lesson good-day
Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take. Wilferd Peterson
wise men competition
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. Washington Allston
wise wisdom
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire
wise adversity men
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
wise daughter mother
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
wise thinking heaven
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
wise pure do-the-best
We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.
wise things-happen
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
wise fierce severe
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
wise men knowing
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited. William Feather
wise age fables
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
wise witty philosophy
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
wise men relative-value
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. William Ralph Inge
wise wisdom common-sense
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
wise community age
Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted. William C. Bryant
wise angel godly
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. William Butler Yeats
wise wisdom suffering
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
wise wisdom writing
Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
wise heart eye
The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"
wise running stars
Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. 'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.' Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.
wise daughter stars
A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.
wise queens women
Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens....