Quotes about wise
wise kings strikes
When you strike at a king, you must kill him. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise wisdom intelligence
Life is a festival only to the wise.
wise children philosophical
A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.
wise plato philosophical
Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
wise future past
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.
wise men alliances
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.
wise home men
The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.
wise men differences
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.
wise fate beer
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
wise wisdom skepticism
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
wise stars winning
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.
wise simplicity analysis
The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
wise people judgment
We are all wise for other people, none for himself.
wise serenity aim
The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
wise moon men
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
wise stars children
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
wise home men
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
wise simple prosperity
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
wise rope sand
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
wise excess fool
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
wise men taste
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
wise life-and-love today
Let us be poised, wise and our own today.
wise wisdom men
Wise men are not wise at all times.
wise men weak-points
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
wise men ends
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
wise true-friend character
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
wise book reading
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
wise school knowledge
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
wise men foolish-man
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
wise ignorance men
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
wise book men
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
wise real men
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
wise wisdom war
In every war, there are always elements of blindness. Shimon Peres