Quotes about wise
wise
During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally.
wise men order
Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind. Orson Scott Card
wise children reading
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. Robert Southey
wise jobs looks
The poor look for jobs while the rich build networks Robert Kiyosaki
wise pain cutting
Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes. Anna Jameson
wise educational men
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. Adlai Stevenson
wise war men
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
wise travel men
The fool wanders, a wise man travels. Thomas Fuller
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 romance derivatives
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality. Kenneth Turan
wise wisdom people
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event. Kenneth Tynan
wise horse adventure
When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure. Julia Cameron
wise order firsts
Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.
wise design tree
Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.
wise book passing-moments
A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.
wise light creative
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.
wise art essence
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
wise listening seeing
Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts Jiddu Krishnamurti
wise age growing
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. Glenda Jackson
wise men forests
Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in. Gilbert K. Chesterton
wise survivor tools
And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.
wise fall men
THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly ...
wise wisdom men
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. Hal Borland
wise guy way
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
wise wisdom wise-words
A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.
wise divorce example
It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example. Gordon B. Hinckley
wise real book
It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and mingle with the great of the earth, counsel with the wise of all time, look into the unlived days with prophets...To become acquainted with real nobility as it walks the pages of history and science and literature is to strengthen character and develop life in its finer meanings.
wise future darkness
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] Horace
wise knowledge being-wise
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
wise wisdom freedom
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
wise successful keys
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Herman Cain
wise wisdom diversity
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. Herbert Spencer
wise time past
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.