Quotes about wise
wise desire belief
It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires. Walter Savage Landor
wise praise applause
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
wise power political
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
wise opinion knows
We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.
wise block men
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.
wise existence whole
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
wise wisdom writing
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
wise doubt mind
Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.
wise fool speech
A fool's wild speech confounds the wise. Walter Scott
wise men blessing
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
wise men isolation
This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent a division of Europe, this will lead to Russia's isolation."Bahr, a wise man, had a very concrete suggestion as to how this danger could be averted. Vladimir Putin
wise memorable men
Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable. Winston Churchill
wise war winning
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
wise men fool
Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.
wise law-of-attraction spirituality
You create your own universe as you go along.
wise journey joy
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
wise time freedom
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been
wise mistake men
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
wise giving actors
Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power. William Mapother
wise men thinking
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. Virginia Woolf
wise peace kings
When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes. Vinoba Bhave
wise wisdom men
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest. Woodrow Wilson
wise pain suffering
There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again! Woody Allen
wise matter no-matter-what
No Matter what you do there will be critics.
wise sacrifice self
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live! William Wordsworth
wise mind divine
Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness
wise wisest
And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.
wise brain battle
Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.
wise learning speech
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
wise home heaven
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
wise ignorant
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant William Saroyan
wise art writing
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.
wise stupid humble
I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.