Quotes about wise
wise philosophy book
God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. If thou read with understanding, it will make thee a great master of philosophy, and a true servant of the divine Author: if thou but barely read, it will make thee thine own wise man and the Author's fool. Francis Quarles
wise silence desire
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
wise humble views
If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.
wise firsts events
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. Horace Walpole
wise half done
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
wise men fool
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools. Horace
wise strong freedom
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
wise knowledge land
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes. Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions of truths may be propagated amongst the people.... The whole land must be watered with the streams of knowledge. Horace Mann
wise wisdom men
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
wise men wicked
For never, never, wicked man was wise. Homer
wise color sensual
She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.
wise wine men
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
wise lying men
...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.
wise wine laughing
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.
wise fool events
After the event, even a fool is wise.
wise art cleverness
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
wise powerful heart
Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and Might to inspire new hopes and powerful To drown the bitterness of cares.
wise children father
It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]
wise opportunity achievement
We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future? Jawaharlal Nehru
wise acting scared
I like to be challenged acting wise and I like to do things that I'm scared of. Jason Segel
wise men realizing
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. Hippocrates
wise food health
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
wise college thinking
I have a difference with Senator [Bernie] Sanders, who promises free college, which, if you look at the fine print, depends really on governors coming up with a lot of the money, which I don't think is a particularly wise bet. And I have a plan to help people pay down their student debt, because I want to unleash the entrepreneurial energy that young people have. Hillary Clinton
wise art moving
Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency. Herbert Read
wise phrases world
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
wise thinking brave
he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.
wise wisdom becoming
The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been. Evan Esar
wise wisdom unnecessary
A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.
wise may want
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things. Israel Zangwill
wise smart heart
Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart. Jack Ma
wise thinking world
I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her. J. Cole
wise children men
He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last. J. C. Ryle
wise mean challenges
I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new. Isabel Lucas