Quotes about wise
wise experience
Experience makes us wise. William Hazlitt
wise men levels
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
wise men parent
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
wise country travel
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
wise travel stupid
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
wise children ambition
Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave. William Davenant
wise ambition thinking
Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
wise men soul
The assembled souls of all that men held wise.
wise prayer ocean
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.
wise winning men
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection. William Dean Howells
wise men brain
There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut William E. Gladstone
wise honesty safe
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest. Walter Raleigh
wise honesty men
It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.
wise men evil
All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
wise history may
In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.
wise doubt age
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you. W. Somerset Maugham
wise men two
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
wise philosophy men
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
wise people atheism
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
wise book heart
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle... Vladimir Nabokov
wise very-wise stills
You can be very wild and still be very wise Yoko Ono
wise writing cynical
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. Willie Nelson
wise men fifty
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never! William Osler
wise science looks
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
wise art strong
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.
wise knowledge treasure
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise. William Penn
wise men apes
Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
wise reality men
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
wise neutrality use
A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
wise wisdom keeping-promises
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
wise men treasure
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
wise wisdom tolerance
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
wise wisdom secret
It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.