Quotes about wise
wise wisdom want
The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wise wisdom powerful
The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wise solitude loner
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wise spring flower
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wise mistress doctrine
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wise voice mountain
Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wise jesus evil
Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wise names mind
Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle Into the Hell from which it first was furled. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wise differences solitude
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wise prayer doubt
If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? Percy Bysshe Shelley
wise men selfishness
Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wise mistake new-beginnings
It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead. Mel Gibson
wise forever going-away
And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow. Mel Gibson
wise wiser
If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.
wise dog two
The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things Mary Oliver
wise fighting love-is
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb. Mary Oliver
wise animal men
Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests; stemming desertification and erosion; avoiding the spread of toxic substances harmful to man, animals and plants; protecting the atmosphere; all these can be accomplished only through active and wise cooperation, without borders or political power plays. Pope John Paul II
wise men giving
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen Pindar
wise wisdom men
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise. Pindar
wise men deeds
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. Pierre Charron
wise men mind
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. Pierre Charron
wise learning men
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. Pierre Charron
wise mean men
Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly. Philippa Gregory
wise curiosity curious
The over curious are not over wise. Philip Massinger
wise men desire
Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off. Philip Massinger
wise fall soar
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. Philip Massinger
wise good-life thinking
To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised by the love of God. That will guarantee a good life. Pope Francis
wise simple appreciate
simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them". Paulo Coelho
wise dream simple
I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. Paulo Coelho
wise dull answers
A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers. Paulo Coelho
wise ego important
It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.
wise country block
I really do believe that the basic principle that Americans have the right to know what they're buying when they buy it is going to be something that spreads across this country very quickly, and that the food manufacturers would be wise to be leaders instead of trying to block this with lawsuits and other ways of trying to get their way. Peter Shumlin
wise helping being-wise
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. Quintus Ennius