Quotes about wise
wise men beauty-and-love
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play. Arthur C. Clarke
wise book blessing
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe. Anton Chekhov
wise lying men
An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.
wise men soul
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
wise learning ignorance
The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance. Baltasar Gracian
wise enemy fool
The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .
wise luck chance
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
wise learning thinking
Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.
wise respect men
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
wise ifs
If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.
wise fashion knowledge
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
wise wisdom character
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
wise understanding sometimes
Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
wise advice easy
A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.
wise skills luck
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
wise mistake men
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.
wise thanking-him advice
The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
wise wisdom impatient
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
wise opportunity men
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great.
wise thinking echoes
In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. Arianna Huffington
wise practice society
When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices. Anthony Trollope
wise reality men
The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
wise men long
SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies. Diana Wynne Jones
wise sports sweet
I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice. Derrick Rose
wise intelligent men
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment. Desiderius Erasmus
wise men sides
No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
wise wisdom sin
He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.
wise men greek
Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.
wise aprons printed
Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron. Demetri Martin
wise starting credibility
If you are wearing a bandana you better have something wise to say, because you are starting with a credibility deficit.
wise children years
I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless. Dean Koontz
wise world this-world
In this world only the paranoid survive.
wise song writing
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. Bob Dylan