Quotes about wise
wise strong lying
No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies! Rudyard Kipling
wise men wish
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. Samuel Johnson
wise men vanity
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.
wise pain men
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain.
wise reading style
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not the conclusion, but is diligent to mark how it is inferred; they read for other purposes than the attainment of practical knowledge; and are no more likely to grow wise by an examination of a treatise of moral prudence, than an architect to inflame his devotion by considering attentively the proportions of a temple.
wise ignorance flow
From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise
wise husband infidelity
Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
wise men thinking
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
wise doe welcome
If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
wise thinking being-wise
He that never thinks can never be wise.
wise eye jail
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
wise eye prudent
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
wise men quitting
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
wise brave prodigies
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
wise country wall
No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For instance, if he is to shut himself up for a year to study science, it is better to look out to the fields, than to an opposite wall. Then, if a man walks out in the country, there is nobody to keep him from walking in again: but if a man walks out in London, he is not sure when he will walk in again. A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life.
wise gratitude children
I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.
wise grateful men
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But for the same reason everyone is eager to instruct his neighbours. To be wise or to be virtuous is to buy dignity and importance at a high price; but when nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies or faults of others, no man is so insensible to the voice of fame as to linger on the ground.
wise witty business
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
wise wisdom knowledge
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
wise men hands
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had
wise reading being-wise
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
wise strong men
Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man. Sam Walter Foss
wise men steps
The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps. Robert Jordan
wise thinking advice
A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.
wise men faces
A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
wise queens path
Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
wise sight giving
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth. William Harvey
wise military thinking
I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran. William Hague
wise men hypocrisy
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. William Hazlitt
wise men idiot
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
wise self cease
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
wise men giving
Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
wise way world
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.