Quotes about wise
wise wisdom taken
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wise men silence
We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.
wise men hair
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play! Lin Yutang
wise philosophy believe
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
wise men busy
The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.
wise reading book
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
wise busy too-busy
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
wise thinking attorney
I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney, if the attorney thinks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you. Lee Harvey Oswald
wise money waiting
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. Lee Iacocca
wise food two
It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over. Laurie Colwin
wise men cynical
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. L. Ron Hubbard
wise men relax
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work. Thomas Aquinas
wise wisdom powerful
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
wise jesus men
Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise man, did indeed exist. Terry Pratchett
wise men feet
They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .
wise native-american abuse
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. Tecumseh
wise silence soul
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.
wise kings strikes
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
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.