Quotes about wise
wise doubt age
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you. W. Somerset Maugham
wise men two
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
wise fool investment
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. Warren Buffett
wise men trends
Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.
wise years buying
It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.
wise men young
The wise man once said invest young
wise art intelligent
If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass. Vincent Van Gogh
wise art distance
If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.
wise men answers
One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour. Vladimir Lenin
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?
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 country pride
A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past. Joseph Howe
wise teaching prudent
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.