Quotes about wise
wise wisdom enemy
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. Rumi
wise wisdom clever
Look for the answer inside your question.
wise positive-thinking night
Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."
wise matter poor
If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You. Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You. No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ... Anything I am entirely is You!
wise cities people
There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
wise today changing-myself
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
wise mean fool
Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.
wise hands gold
The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.
wise men mystery
A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.
wise spiritual wisdom
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
wise whales people
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong. Tom Robbins
wise names patriotism
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism. Todd Gitlin
wise true-friend life-is-short
We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love. Steve Almond
wise true-friend book
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.
wise rocks band
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum Steve Albini
wise men might
A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other. Stephen Crane
wise mean eye
We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth. Thomas Carlyle
wise men should-have
Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
wise mind speech
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
wise teaching virtuous
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
wise lying science
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.
wise environmental foolish
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
wise eye history
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
wise science important
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
wise distance character
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
wise men half
God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
wise men foolish-man
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
wise knows
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
wise heaven soul
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!
wise world events
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
wise memories past
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.
wise distance lying
It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
wise soul intellectual
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.