Quotes about wise
wise inspiration men
As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind! Baruch Spinoza
wise men hands
If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise man surpasses the ignorant man) seems exceedingly hard, it may nevertheless be discovered. Needs must it be hard, since it is so seldom found. How would it be possible, if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labour be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
wise men atheism
The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
wise perfect soul
A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense. Augustine Birrell
wise views style
The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.
wise wisdom glasses
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. Augustus Hare
wise book successful
It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover. Augusten Burroughs
wise heart winning
For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty. Arthur Machen
wise decision persons
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. Arthur Ashe
wise three granted
Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it! Ayn Rand
wise understanding faces
There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.
wise art stars
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere. Charles Fort
wise strong powerful
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind. Sydney Smith
wise men astrology
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. Edward Abbey
wise men sight
No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
wise wisdom men
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
wise men tongue
The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day. Aristotle
wise knowledge learning
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.
wise art knowledge
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.
wise humor men
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
wise honor
Everyone honors the wise.
wise men fool
The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
wise men thinking
Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
wise people effort
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
wise men details
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
wise pain philosophical
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
wise wisdom men
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
wise writing men
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
wise men thinking
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.
wise men yelling
A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining. Ben Hecht
wise song together
There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up. Ben Harper
wise world littles
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites. Ben Jonson
wise teaching men
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.