Quotes about wise
wise doubters catchy
The believer is happy. The doubter is wise. Edgar Allan Poe
wise wisdom men
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
wise opportunity giving
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs. Elbert Hubbard
wise men clouds
Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
wise men weak-man
When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.
wise heart helping-others
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
wise people leader
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? Eleanor Roosevelt
wise religious attitude
The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the past in Europe and other world areas, I think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions.
wise believe men
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.
wise learning space
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible. Edsger Dijkstra
wise men astrology
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. Edward Abbey
wise men sight
No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
wise wisdom men
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
wise men tongue
The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day. Aristotle
wise knowledge learning
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.
wise art knowledge
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.
wise humor men
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
wise honor
Everyone honors the wise.
wise men fool
The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
wise men thinking
Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
wise people effort
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
wise men details
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
wise pain philosophical
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
wise wisdom men
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
wise writing men
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
wise men thinking
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.
wise men yelling
A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining. Ben Hecht
wise song together
There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up. Ben Harper
wise world littles
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites. Ben Jonson
wise teaching men
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
wise teaching men
No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.
wise fall pieces
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
wise men may
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.