Quotes about wise
wise ignorance knowledge
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know-even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction-than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too. Isaac Asimov
wise philosophy numbers
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
wise wisdom ignorance
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
wise knowledge one-direction
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise-even in their own field.
wise peace military
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
wise wisdom emo
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
wise too-late reasonable
It is never too late to become reasonable and wise. Immanuel Kant
wise men mind
The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.
wise baby race
The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years. Ellen Gilchrist
wise lying believe
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine - for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish. Irving Kristol
wise art character
Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this: and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, an encourage it in others. Patrick Henry
wise mother grandma
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. Pam Brown
wise horse equestrian
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.
wise perfect doubt
Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method... Leonhard Euler
wise country lying
We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing. Leonardo DiCaprio
wise art sleep
O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead? Leonardo da Vinci
wise evil doe
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.
wise wine rose
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. Oscar Wilde
wise wisdom yoga
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
wise women future
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
wise tree owl
There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the less he spoke Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree? Speech must die to serve that which is spoken. Paul Ricoeur
wise travel trying
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. Paul Fussell
wise travel joy
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
wise leader possibility
You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less Patrick Ness
wise balls failing
Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices. Patrick Rothfuss
wise flower moving
You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
wise enough should
You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
wise hero owl
Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.
wise night men
I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.
wise brave enough
It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
wise sexy fashion
Celia [Brady] is a young woman who, you know, she's still got that fresh young vibe about her but at the same time she's quite wise beyond her years and very mature and she has that womanly, sexy quality, but at the same time she's very youthful in her clothes. She has that interesting mix between the two. I really love that balance about fashion. Lily Collins
wise advice easy
there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
wise engineering talking
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. Leon Kass