Quotes about wise
wise revenge mean
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise. Maurice Maeterlinck
wisest-man foolish-man thought-provoking
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. Bertrand Russell
wise civilization use
The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
wise affection substitutes
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
wise men lady-macbeth
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. William Shakespeare
wise men giving
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.
wise silence saying-nothing
I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.
wise grace virtuous
One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.
wise knows
Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.
wise use fairness
If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.
wise heaven grace
Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.
wise fairness holy
Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she.
wise queens kings
Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say the King Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.
wise loss men
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
wise witty love-is
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.
wise smart men
The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.
wise believe pride
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. Aeschylus
wise consistency way
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances. John C. Calhoun
wise men trying
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. James Truslow Adams
wise decision incentives
Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom. James Taranto
wise wisdom make-sense
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. James Thurber
wise asking-questions shells
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell. James Stephens
wise smart independent
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise. James Surowiecki
wise strong enough
I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds. James Nesbitt
wise carpe-diem years
To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise. James Montgomery
wise kindness ideas
We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs. James McGreevey
wise teaching mean
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. James Monroe
wise mean patriotic
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.
wise mean exercise
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
wise thinking our-world
I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth. James Lovelock
wise mother children
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa. James M. Barrie
wise truth lying
Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows? John Dos Passos
wise fool littles
Who are a little wise the best fools be. John Donne