Quotes about wise
wise men honor
The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him. Epicurus
wise men reason
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
wise men doe
The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
wise wisdom men
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.
wise thinking men
The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.
wise wisdom philosophical
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
wise wisdom men
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. Epictetus
wise determination writing
Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom do you admire? What are their special traits that you would make your own It's time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to become wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become. If you have a daybook, write down who you're trying to be, so that you can refer to this self-determination. Precisely describe the demeanor you want to adopt so that you may preserve it when you are by yourself or with other people.
wise realizing
The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.
wise men air
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
wise men mind
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
wise patience philosophical
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
wise wisdom stupid
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
wise men ignorant
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
wise clever people
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Emil Nolde
wise giving mastery
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness.
wise men knowing
The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty. Emile Durkheim
wise perseverance may
We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not. Ellen Swallow Richards
wise fall color
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. Edward Thorndike
wise loneliness men
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. Hermann Hesse
wise squares games
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.
wise school people
In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.
wise mother mean
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute.
wise wisdom men
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
wise men grace
A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
wise writing doors
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
wise men pondering
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw. Hesiod
wise men night
Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus
wise wisdom men
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
wise boys youth-of-today
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
wise men hateful
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. Herodotus
wise men misunderstood
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good. Helen Rowland
wise wisdom sassy
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.