Quotes about wise
wise men blessing
...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing. Henry Miller
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 running wisdom
nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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 lying reflection
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.
wise book half
Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
wise believe fire
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
wiser
The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong. Romesh Gunesekera
wise mean practice
There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy. James E. Faust
wise thinking careers
I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need. Jason Isbell
wise money men
Money is the wise man's religion. Euripides
wise wisdom second-thoughts
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
wise ducks smell
The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs. Ernest Bramah
wise hate imbalance
there is an imbalance of power. It is an imbalance that is easy to exploit, but it is not a wise course. Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side." - jace
wise men might
In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations." You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken. Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit.
wise character years
My character is different from all of the Elves you've met before, in that she's really young. And I keep telling journalists this because I've really focused on that in my performance. I'm trying to distinguish her from all of these incredibly sage and wise Elves that have lived for thousands of years. Evangeline Lilly
wise important looks
Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?' Mike Rowe
wise careers anger-inside
I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise. Mickey Rourke
wise philosophy men
A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. Frank Zappa
wise men slavery
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. Frank Herbert
wise men tasks
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.
wise art prayer
A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
wise wisdom block
Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.