Quotes about wise
wise men air
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. Epictetus
wise men mind
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
wise patience philosophical
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
wise wisdom stupid
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
wise men ignorant
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
wise clever people
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Emil Nolde
wise giving mastery
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness.
wise men knowing
The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty. Emile Durkheim
wise men grace
A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
wise writing doors
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
wise men pondering
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw. Hesiod
wise men night
Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus
wise wisdom men
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
wise boys youth-of-today
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
wise men hateful
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. Herodotus
wise men misunderstood
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good. Helen Rowland
wise wisdom sassy
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
wise men motivational-sales
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Heinrich Heine
wise witty philosophical
Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.
wise men talking
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
wise kings pigs
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. Hilaire Belloc
wise names zeus
The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus. Heraclitus
wise listening all-things
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
wise agree all-things
It is wise to agree that all things are one.
wise wisdom men
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
wise sorry adversity
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us Henry Ward Beecher
wise fall looks
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
wise mistake men
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant.
wise spiritual sorry
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.
wise men weight
Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which has never been reexamined, cannot be conclusive. Henry Clay
wise light trying
When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it. Henry Cloud
wise giving-up party
As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into an agreement with his wife, that in all disputes of this kind the party who was most convinced they were right should always surrender the victory. By which means both would be more forward to give up the cause. Henry Fielding
wise hero character
...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, hero, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest orders to perform.