Quotes about wise
wise strong empires
I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible. Cao Cao
wise judging judgment
Wise judges are we of each other! Cardinal Richelieu
wise men thinking
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. C. S. Lewis
wise boys thinking
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
wise wisdom circles
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
wise real giving
If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.
wise country sacrifice
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been dedicated by long practice to that wise and beneficent policy. It is the foundation principle of our system of liberty. It makes the largest promise to the freedom and development of the individual. Its preservation is worth all the effort and all the sacrifice that it may cost. Calvin Coolidge
wise secret curiosity
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. Bryant H. McGill
wise literature fruit
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
wise strings-attached giving
Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached. Catherine Ponder
wise faces towns
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. Carson McCullers
wise writing thinking
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy. Carol Burnett
wise country selfish
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. Carl Schurz
wise paper bankers
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved. Alan Furst
wise men fools-day
As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads." Al Yankovic
wise famous-inspirational opportunity
Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity. Earl Nightingale
wise teacher attitude
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about
wise opportunity risk
Security isn't what the wise person looks for; it's opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every side. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
wise philosophy hero
It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
wise children father
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?
wise country mean
We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I say ranked 59th, it means that in the percentage of women, in our national parliament, our National Congress, is now ranks 59th from the top. That means 58 countries have more women than we do in percentage wise. Eleanor Smeal
wise people house
There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do. Edward Heath
wise kings eye
Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return David Bowie
wise eye men
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope. Edwin Arnold
wise sacred conflict
In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.
wise strong wind
Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.
wise wisdom safe-and-sound
First, then, a woman will, or won't, - depend on't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice. Aaron Hill
wise employment honest
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. Abraham Lincoln
wise strong philosophy
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.
wise father pursuit-of-happiness
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began....
wise wisdom hero
He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
wise mistake victory
We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.
wise believe government
I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.