Quotes about wise
wise mistake
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them. Orson Scott Card
wise being-wise willing
I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot. Nicole Kidman
wise men lord
From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.
wise spiritual order
Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism. Ram Dass
wise world-suffering training
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
wise long soul
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness. Stephen Jay Gould
wise jesus responsibility
The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, 'Lord, teach us to preach'; Lord, teach us to do miracles,' or 'Lord, teach us to be wise'...but they said, 'Lord, teach us to pray.' Billy Graham
wise horse kids
You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class. Kurt Vonnegut
wise hate men
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.
wise courtship benedick
Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably. William Shakespeare
wise men foolery
The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
wise sweet laughter
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.
wise prayer ignorant
We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.
wise wisdom age
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
wise wisdom
The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
wise fall sunset
When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.
wise doubt tents
The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
wise play clouds
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
wise memorable design
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
wise men judging-yourself
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
wise forever action
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise. Bill Crawford
wise african-american wise-words
A word to the wise ain't... Bill Cosby
wise heart victory
Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
wise our-generation generations
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
wise art easy
Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.
wise challenges violence
Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
wise cousin rap
Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death. Big Pun
wise children heart
As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head. C. S. Lewis
wise prayer essence
Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.
wise teaching historical
The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is, in my opinion, historical. As to the fabulous element in the Old Testament, I very much doubt if you would be wise to chuck it out.
wise reality men
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.
wise believe men
..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.
wise technology reality
There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.