Quotes about wise
wise men lust
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. Tacitus
wise desire lasts
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
wise weakness lasts
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
wise cynical hell
I felt wise and cynical as all hell. Sylvia Plath
wise caring lions
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us". Swami Vivekananda
wise fall men
Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.
wise selfishness desire
[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.
wise comfort littles
There's little comfort in the wise Rupert Brooke
wise eye thinking
Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise; Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies; And feel, who have laid our groping hands away; And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.
wise grief moon
They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.
wise wisdom enemy
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. Rumi
wise wisdom clever
Look for the answer inside your question.
wise positive-thinking night
Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."
wise matter poor
If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You. Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You. No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ... Anything I am entirely is You!
wise cities people
There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
wise today changing-myself
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
wise mean fool
Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.
wise hands gold
The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.
wise men mystery
A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.
wise spiritual wisdom
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
wise whales people
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong. Tom Robbins
wise names patriotism
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism. Todd Gitlin
wise true-friend life-is-short
We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love. Steve Almond
wise true-friend book
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.
wise rocks band
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum Steve Albini
wise men might
A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other. Stephen Crane
wise mean eye
We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth. Thomas Carlyle
wise men should-have
Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
wise mind speech
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
wise teaching virtuous
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
wise lying science
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.
wise environmental foolish
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
wise eye history
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.