Quotes about wise
wise italian cities
Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily. Niccolo Machiavelli
wise book men
The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer. Noah Webster
wise missing teeth
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence. Jodi Picoult
wise past echoes
We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment. Ken Burns
wise play use
When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them. Kostya Tszyu
wise carnegie halls
An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall. Oscar Levant
wise character advice
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition. Omar Sharif
wise believe insightful
You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself. Oprah Winfrey
wise truth believe
When people show you who they are ... believe them!
wise country writing
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors. Oliver Goldsmith
wise kings real
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.
wise regret lying
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
wise home taste
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
wise nature men
Nature herself makes the wise man rich. Marcus Tullius Cicero
wise clever carpe-diem
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
wise judging people
Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?
wise truth lying
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
wise men temper
The wise man never loses his temper.
wise men suffering
Man must suffer to be wise.
wise men doe
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
wise art philosophy
Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
wise men benefits
The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.
wise doe coercion
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
wise fool protection
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
wise witty powerful
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
wise men opinion
No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
wise wisdom philosophical
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
wise men traitor
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
wise regret business
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made. Kiana Tom
wise gnosis keys
The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE. Kenny Smith
wise nature hate
Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth. Margaret Cavendish
wise lying men
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. Mark Twain
wise littles fairy
Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived. L. Frank Baum