Quotes about wise
wise cat men
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. Jonathan Swift
wise book reading
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. Jonathan Swift
wise lying men
Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies. Jonathan Swift
wise jobs role-models
One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me. Kevin Smith
wise dream children
But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What good is it, Laila jo?’ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq’s, for her children’s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope. Khaled Hosseini
wise laughter men
The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?" Khalil Gibran
wise fall ignorance
My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me. Khalil Gibran
wise men abundance
Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value. Khalil Gibran
wise wisdom men
God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind. Khalil Gibran
wise wisdom truth
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. Khalil Gibran
wise wisdom aggravation
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. Khalil Gibran
wise book words-of-wisdom
Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books. Khalil Gibran
wise mistake kids
One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not. Kevin Allen
wise time age
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. Jonathan Swift
wise men rogues
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces. Jonathan Swift
wise science astrology
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit. Jonathan Swift
wise country men
No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath. Jonathan Swift
wise crowns sovereign
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies. Jonathan Swift
wise wisdom may
Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite. Jonathan Swift
wise philosophy men
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. Jonathan Swift
wise distance character
The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things. Jonathan Raban
wise men order
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. Napoleon Hill
wise successful forget
If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you. Napoleon Hill
wise inspirational-life new-beginnings
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Napoleon Hill
wise hurt honesty
Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy. Napoleon Hill
wise wisdom men
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. Napoleon Hill
wise opportunity people
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible... Napoleon Bonaparte
wise self fool
Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied. Napoleon Bonaparte
wise age employment
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments. Lyndon B. Johnson
wise spring heart
Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole. Lyndon B. Johnson
wise inspiration patriotic
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. Lyndon B. Johnson
wise decision choices
Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of. Ludacris
wise moments ends
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. Lucian