Quotes about wise
wise self people
Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to allow for the self-serving bias of everybody else because most people are not going to remove it all that successfully, the human condition being what it is. If you don't allow for self-serving bias in your conduct, again you're a fool. Charlie Munger
wise hard-work opportunity
It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it - who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet - that they can occasionally find one. And the wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time they don't. It's just that simple.
wise opportunity simple
The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don't. It's just that simple.
wise pilots matter
No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.
wise zero people
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.
wise past men
The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity. Charles Mackay
wiser persons
There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
wise very-wise
I'm not very wise to many things. Charles Manson
wise mean guy
I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy. Charles Grodin
wise men fool
Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow. Bob Saget
wise years careers
If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.
wise eye exercise
A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit. John Lancaster Spalding
wise lear has-beens
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. William Shakespeare
wise men thinking
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise. Kurt Vonnegut
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 fighting flirting
Let's all wise up. Some of us aren't fighting the fire; we're playing with fire. Flirting with the devil. Stop it! Stop it now before all hell literally breaks loose. Beth Moore
wise loss water
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs. Bernard of Clairvaux
wise ugly-duckling swans
In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do. Benjamin Hoff
wise tao-of-pooh foolish
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
wiser-you wiser greener
The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be. Bob Marley
wise pain sorrow
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow. Bill Withers
wise book angel
The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us! Bill Vaughan
wise nice cat
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice? Bette Midler
wise wisdom men
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience. Benjamin Whichcote
wise men mind
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
wise men fool
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
wise stars ocean
Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas. Chauncey Depew
wise practice may
We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary. Che Guevara