Quotes about wise
wise country america
You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude. Paul Theroux
wise average risk
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk. John Slattery
wise mind crowds
Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't. John Seabrook
wise believe president
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits. John Podesta
wise people wise-people
Wise people know that all their money belongs to God. John Piper
wise desire gowns
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise. Martin Luther
wise religious humor
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
wise strong people
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
wise power men
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
wise women gowns
There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.
wise wisdom devil
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
wise fighting silence
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.
wise kids nimble
Kids are more nimble than wise... Nancy Gibbs
wise simple able
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies. Mortimer Adler
wise wisdom may
If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows. Ovid
wise thinking compelling-reason
The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people? Paul Nitze
wise zero
To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero. Matthew Fox
wise thinking people
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. Mary Wortley Montagu
wise innovation prejudice
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation. Mary Wollstonecraft
wise men feet
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet
wise eye mind
Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I. Martha Beck
wise teaching ignorance
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife? Marion Zimmer Bradley
wise taken advice
Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation. Maria Monk
wise art character
Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this: and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, an encourage it in others. Patrick Henry
wise mother grandma
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. Pam Brown
wise horse equestrian
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.
wise perfect doubt
Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method... Leonhard Euler
wise whole cycles
Wise it is to comprehend the whole. Neil Young
wise lying book
The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing, and any body of men says another, the wise man will decide, "This book is the Word of him who cannot lie". R. A. Torrey
wise men done
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity. Niccolo Machiavelli
wise men perfection
the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.
wise wisdom opportunity
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
wise men law
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.