Quotes about wise
wise men self
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality. Neal A. Maxwell
wise men literature
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? Muhammad Iqbal
wise greatness knowing
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. Muhammad Ali
wise bird understanding
The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier. Oscar Wilde
wise sweet art
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.
wise believe men
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the secret cause of life evolution has nothing to do. A man, therefore, may be a materialistic evolutionist or a theistic evolutionist; that is, he may believe that the cause is some single unintelligent impersonal force, or he may believe that the cause is a wise and beneficent God. Lyman Abbott
wise doe spirituality
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. Lydia M. Child
wise law sorrow
Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come. Lucretia Mott
wise men thinking
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there. Lucretius
wise wisdom fighting
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. Louis L'Amour
wise men sickness
If you take a little time and watch forensics, and see what men, sick-minded men do ... I don't know whether it's wise for women to feed the sickness that's in the man. Louis Farrakhan
wise men hands
A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.
wise writing thinking
Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing. Lorrie Moore
wise moving heart
Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive! Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist. Michael Jackson
wise men said
As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'
wise moving heart
Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.
wise use energy
Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained. Michael Dolan
wise science men
In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right. Michael Crichton
wise men long
The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can. Michel de Montaigne
wise may being-wise
Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
wise men fool
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
wise wisdom men
A man must become wise at his own expense.
wise being-yourself men
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
wise wisdom knowledge
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
wise wisdom fashion
The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
wise fool made
Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.
wise hurt hands
God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.
wise humility people
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
wise wisdom men
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
wise desire use
For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
wise civilization oil
Islam is a civilization that is fractured linguistically, ethnically, sectarian-wise, as ours is. What bin Laden has done, though, is to identify a number of issues that are tangible and visceral for Muslims. His indictment list of Western support for Arab tyranny, our ability to keep oil prices too low - at least until recently - our occupation of the Arabian Peninsula. Michael Scheuer
wise boys men
Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy and wealth and wise. As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms. Mark Twain
wise suicide two
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.