Quotes about wise
wise heart destiny
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. Victor Hugo
wise philosophy destiny
During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
wise reality facts
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
wise book people
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
wise ambition defeat
It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions. Vernon Howard
wise spiritual teacher
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
wise book deep-understanding
The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read. Robert Fogel
wise thinking men
The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice. Robert Benchley
wise believe past
Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to make people generally more wise and more skilful than they have been in the past, I believe that we should look for it in medicine. It is true that medicine as it is currently practiced contains little of much use. Rene Descartes
wise greatness men
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. Thomas Otway
wise men office
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men. Thomas More
wise medicine wish
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
wise heart animal
The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals. Thomas Paine
wise men ideas
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat.
wise men matter
Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.
wise wisdom science
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas Huxley
wise world sentimental
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
wise men true-or-false
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
wise thinking hands
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
wise wisdom men
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune. Thomas Browne
wise men thinking
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
wise sex men
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.
wise hands whales
. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to doe what reason cannot teach us? ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, Whales, Elephants, Dromidaries and Camels; these I confesse, are the Colossus and Majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow Engines there is more curious Mathematicks, and the civilitie of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdome of their Maker.
wise love-is men
The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
wise procrastination delay
Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
wise religious expression
Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning.Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props. Timothy Leary
wise kings simple
Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout. Thomas Sydenham
wise father looks
The problems of our day loom ominously before us. Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing sense of direction, that we might chart and follow a wise and proper course. He whom we call our Heavenly Father will not leave our sincere petition unanswered. Thomas S. Monson
wise stars men
As the Christmas season envelops us with all its glory, may we, as did the Wise Men, seek a bright, particular star to guide us in our celebration of the Savior’s birth.
wise gratitude prayer
This Sabbath day has been designated as a day of thanksgiving, a day of gratitude-even a day of prayer. We pause, we ponder, we reflect on the blessings an all-wise Heavenly Father has bestowed upon us, His children, by bringing peace to the battlefield of war and comfort to the hearts of so many in this wonderful world where we live and which we call home
wise people political
What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves. Thomas Sowell
wise clever men
Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.
wise wisdom accomplishment
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. Robert H. Schuller