Quotes about wise
wise government needs
Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses? Vladimir Lenin
wise mean promise
Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept? Walter Bagehot
wise lying philosophy
Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.
wise mother men
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf
wise witty art
There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules ... but there's one little rub. They forget that advertising is persuasion, and persuasion is not a science, but an art. Advertising is the art of persuasion. William Bernbach
wise men errors
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool. William Blake
wise caring men
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
wise hurt sorry
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
wise photography teaching
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
wise wisdom horse
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
wise wisdom stupid
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
wise football stopping
There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning. Wayne Rooney
wise religious thinking
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious. Samuel Richardson
wise trusting-him judging
The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
wise book
The wise are above books. Samuel Daniel
wise ideas history
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wise hard-times glitter
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. Samuel Lover
wise long decision
So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims. Samuel Gompers
wise wine men
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. Salvador Dali
wise thinking video
I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio. Rudolfo Anaya
wise carpe-diem expression
When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made. Rudolf Steiner
wiser grows humans
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser. Wendy Carlos
wise men people
All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise. Vincent Bugliosi
wise fool
The fool inherits, but the wise must get. William Cartwright
wise blessed self
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed. William Congreve
wise cheer grateful
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.
wise procrastination delay
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
wise rain rivers
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters. William Cowper
wise kings war
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
wise baby kings
But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.
wise wisdom nice
Some people are more nice than wise.
wise unique stupidity
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. Vartan Gregorian
wise eye animal
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees. Ursula K. Le Guin