Quotes about wise
wise taken men
Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something. Henry David Thoreau
wise poverty human-life
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
wise book reading
Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and classbooks, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins.
wise plato law
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good! Jean-Jacques Rousseau
wise children taught
Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
wise children men
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
wise sick alex
Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience. Jerry Goldsmith
wise wise-words ready
Be deeply satisfied and ready for more. Esther Hicks
wise life-lesson army
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is. Ernest Hemingway
wise
Time is the least thing we have.
wise simple men
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins [wise men or priests in the Vedic tradition] express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as “I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world. Erwin Schrodinger
wise voice instruction
A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction. Erwin McManus
wise pain joy
The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy. Erykah Badu
wise order long
Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance. Ernest Holmes
wise cat brave
Whitestorm was experienced, wise and brave. When Firestar had been made deputy, he had shown not a scrap of resentment that a lesser cat might have felt. He had supported him from the beginning, and he was the cat Firestar naturally turned to when he needed advice. Erin Hunter
wise bird owl
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird. Flann O'Brien
wise gratitude grateful
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.] Henry Moore
wise keys order
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. Henry Miller
wise men blessing
...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
wise strong love-you
You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. [...] I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.
wise practice giving
The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
wise people form
Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people. Henning Mankell
wise lying rain
Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them white or black, when I am not interested in the world around. When I come back from this isolation of the news, I realize that I have missed nothing significant. We live in the rain of disinformation and rumors, where the truth is a very small number. In those weeks of dissociation I seek for knowledge that lies within me.
wise disappointment brave
To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted. Helen Keller
wise issues justice
The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
wise enough imperialism
No nation is wise enough to rule another.
wise teaching men
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. Cat Stevens
wise attitude thinking
Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-" He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know." "I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you." "That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it," said Jace, looking gratified. Cassandra Clare
wise real ems
...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't. George Eliot
wise mistake source
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
wise men probability
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
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