Quotes about wise
wise ignorance men
When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom. Frank Herbert
wise men doe
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
wise thinking government
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
wise religious mistake
The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.
wise war people
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it. George Grosz
wise men often-is
It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it. George Henry Lewes
wise moving pits
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.
wise jesus philosophy
The Constitution of the United States has been mentioned...as the basis of wise decisions in fundamental principles as applied to all matters pertaining to law and order, because it was framed by men whom God raised up for this very purpose. But in addition to that inspired document, we must always keep in mind that the greatest weapons that can be forged against any false philosophy are the positive teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Harold B. Lee
wise book reading
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered an original and highly personal way to make herself an inhabitant both of the book and of George Eliot's imaginary city. Though I have read and taught the book these many years I find myself desiring to go back to it after reading Rebecca Mead's work. Harold Bloom
wise teenager fighting
Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom. Haim Ginott
wise teenager eye
To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.
wise elephants editing
There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems. Gus Van Sant
wise home school
A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools. Greg Mortenson
wise heart voice
Literature is the voice of the human heart. Graham Swift
wise mean heart
I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart. Jim Butcher
wise spring rain
Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.
wise lying guy
Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.
wise dream men
Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed. H. P. Lovecraft
wise dream hero
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.
wise men heaven
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools. H. G. Wells
wise wind faces
The wind in ones face makes one wise. George Herbert
wise wisdom men
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. Jean de la Bruyere
wise men trying
A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
wise men suffering
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
wise men doe
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
wise fear bores-you
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
wise medicine ayurveda
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
wise art men
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
wise distance men
A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who. Jay-Z
wise country travel
A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.] Carlo Goldoni
wise country despise
A wise traveller never despises his own country.
wise kings hands
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist. Joseph Joubert
wise fashion often-is
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.