Quotes about wise
wise men sailing
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. Joseph Conrad
wise dad children
My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first. Leona Lewis
wise men chaos
Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind. Leonard Cohen
wise way eras
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being. Laz Alonso
wise sports player
The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win. John Kessel
wise wisdom pride
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats
wise wall responsibility
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them. John Kenneth Galbraith
wise economics scope
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.
wise rain law
We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of nature to provide for the various exigencies of the sublunary creation, and to make the several parts dependent upon each other, so as to form one well-regulated system or whole. John Dalton
wise loyalty fall
Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
wise powerful men
Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue. Joyce Brothers
wise confused stupid
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? Jules Feiffer
wise made
Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured. Josh Billings
wise men solitude
A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.
wise men profit
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
wise men want
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
wise men thinking
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.
wise aging folks
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
wise wisdom men
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
wise confidence men
Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.
wise learning experience
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
wise men doe
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
wise stupidity-and-ignorance folks
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
wise men ideals
Make the wise man within you your living ideal. Karl G. Maeser
wise philosophy mean
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth....Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question. Karl Jaspers
wise health winning
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! Karl Lagerfeld
wise men sea
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims. Joyce Cary
wise clever men
If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you. Oswald Spengler
wise mistake men
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Otto von Bismarck
wise wisdom examination
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. Oscar Wilde
wise dies ifs
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
wise offending listening
God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions. Joyce Meyer
wise acting entertainment
No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise. Margot Robbie