Quotes about wise
wise maturity names
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
wise government people
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
wise stupid thinking
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past. [Ger., Wer kann was Dummes, wer was Kluges denken, Das nicht die Vorwelt schon gedacht.]
wise wisdom literature
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
wise live-life men
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
wise nature hate
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
wise wish answers
If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
wise wisdom men
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
wise wisdom time
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
wise dream attitude
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
wise jobs stress
I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good. Joe Torre
wise consistency way
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances. John C. Calhoun
wise men trying
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. James Truslow Adams
wise decision incentives
Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom. James Taranto
wise wisdom make-sense
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. James Thurber
wise asking-questions shells
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell. James Stephens
wise smart independent
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise. James Surowiecki
wise strong enough
I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds. James Nesbitt
wise carpe-diem years
To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise. James Montgomery
wise kindness ideas
We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs. James McGreevey
wise teaching mean
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. James Monroe
wise mean patriotic
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.
wise mean exercise
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
wise powerful mean
By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons. Norman Vincent Peale
wise interesting insightful
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
wise tired ducks
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
wise art imagination
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
wise lying paris
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles. Emile Zola
wise men novelty
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. Emile M. Cioran
wise what-matters care
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow. Epictetus
wise extraordinary-person wish
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
wise trying seems
Do not try to seem wise to others.
wise men self
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found. Epicurus