Quotes about wise
wise future darkness
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. Horace
wise character passion
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
wise war men
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
wise thinking yield
There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth. Hannah Arendt
wise wisdom ifs
If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.
wise kids successful
I think 'Elbow' were considered successful even before [2008's] Seldom Seen Kid because we were living off the band. We have a great manager who keeps our coffers topped off, and we give ourselves a sensible wage with a view to having three fallow years between records. We always make sure we have enough money to make a record and not be pressured time-wise. Guy Garvey
wise wise-words walks
Walk lightly through life. Guy Finley
wise men advice
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
wise foolish easy
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise. Gottfried Leibniz
wise art love-is
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'. Gore Vidal
wise power simple
It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The simple cannot fathom how any man would dare presume to prevail, while the wise are amazed that any reasonable man would want the world, assuming he could get it.
wise wisdom ignorance
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. Gian Carlo Menotti
wise political study
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise. Giambattista Vico
wise men luther
'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say. Friedrich Nietzsche
wise men vision
[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.
wise wisdom want
I no longer want to walk on worn soles.
wise dream believe
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.
wise mean doe
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.
wise running wisdom
To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.
wise men talking
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them. George Burns
wise blessed starting
If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is. George Bernard Shaw
wise witty stupid
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
wise kings clothes
Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
wise trying reform
It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.
wise wisdom future
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
wise men saint
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
wise humor funny-witty
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
wise children father
Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.
wise trouble public-speaking
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
wise art errors
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error. Gelett Burgess
wise men discovery
Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations. Galileo Galilei
wise father differences
I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.
wise modest ready
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.