Quotes about wise
wise men fool
Fools multiply when wise men are silent. Nelson Mandela
wise whole cycles
Wise it is to comprehend the whole. Neil Young
wise lying book
The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing, and any body of men says another, the wise man will decide, "This book is the Word of him who cannot lie". R. A. Torrey
wise men done
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity. Niccolo Machiavelli
wise men perfection
the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.
wise wisdom opportunity
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
wise men law
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.
wise mean government
A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.
wise advice shrewdness
A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.
wise men opinion
It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.
wise philosophical reality
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
wise past men
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
wise adversity blow
A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.
wise should rely
A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
wise italian cities
Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.
wise book men
The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer. Noah Webster
wise missing teeth
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence. Jodi Picoult
wise past echoes
We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment. Ken Burns
wise play use
When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them. Kostya Tszyu
wise carnegie halls
An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall. Oscar Levant
wise character advice
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition. Omar Sharif
wise believe insightful
You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself. Oprah Winfrey
wise truth believe
When people show you who they are ... believe them!
wise country writing
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors. Oliver Goldsmith
wise kings real
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.
wise regret lying
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
wise home taste
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
wise nature men
Nature herself makes the wise man rich. Marcus Tullius Cicero
wise clever carpe-diem
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
wise judging people
Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?
wise truth lying
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
wise men temper
The wise man never loses his temper.
wise men suffering
Man must suffer to be wise.