Quotes about wise
wise years together
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
wise men fool
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. Franz Schubert
wise technology thinking
I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise. Frank Grillo
wise strong growing-up
We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it. Frank Pittman
wise action courses
It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it. George Jackson
wise men idiot
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. George Jean Nathan
wise artist mind
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body. George Jean Nathan
wise men together
Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together. George Herbert
wise men purpose
A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose. George Herbert
wise fashion harm
There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
wise men law
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
wise nice men
I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world Chris Kattan
wise art eye
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: "Thru Time I'll save my love!" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . . -Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: "Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon. F. Scott Fitzgerald
wise long age
You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde F. Scott Fitzgerald
wise wisdom men
Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies. George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
wise baby kings
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles? George R. R. Martin
wise mother grief
If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know you did for love. For Arya and Sansa, and out of grief for Bran and Rickon. Love’s not always wise, I’ve learned. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts... wherever they take us. Don’t we, Mother? George R. R. Martin
wise fear laughter
Laughter is poison to fear. George R. R. Martin
wise men opposites
Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites? George Carlin
wise wisdom memories
The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember. George Carlin
wise hands pestilence
[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death. Frederick Douglass
wise opportunity men
Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them. Frederick Douglass
wise morning lying
Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening. Frederick Douglass
wise men mad
Oppression makes a wise man mad. Frederick Douglass
wise curious being-wise
To be wise is to be eternally curious. Frederick Buechner
wise honesty prayer
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial. Frederick Buechner
wise brave risk
Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks. Frank Warren
wise men wife
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. George Eliot
wise men action
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men. Fernando Pessoa
wise world enjoy
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world. Fernando Pessoa
wise fashion air
It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone. Felix Adler
wise equality men
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. Felix Frankfurter
wise unique vivid
Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing. Federico Fellini