Quotes about wise
wise fool vain
The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain. Ursula K. Le Guin
wise wisdom cat
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser. Tycho Brahe
wise commitment college
It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. Twyla Tharp
wise real kind
To have grown wise and kind is real success. Tristan Bernard
wise people annoyed
Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way. William Graham Sumner
wise men satisfied
The wise man is satisfied with nothing. William Godwin
wise men liberty
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
wise thinking trouble
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. William Golding
wise fall heart
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
wise expression law
You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive. William Allen White
wise guy littles
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. William Arthur Ward
wise time learning
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
wise philosophy failure
Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them. Wilferd Peterson
wise life-lesson good-day
Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.
wise men competition
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. Washington Allston
wise philosophy men
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men. W. Somerset Maugham
wise people atheism
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
wise book heart
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle... Vladimir Nabokov
wise very-wise stills
You can be very wild and still be very wise Yoko Ono
wise writing cynical
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. Willie Nelson
wise men fifty
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never! William Osler
wise science looks
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
wise art strong
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.
wise knowledge treasure
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise. William Penn
wise men apes
Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
wise reality men
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
wise neutrality use
A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
wise wisdom keeping-promises
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
wise men treasure
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
wise wisdom tolerance
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
wise wisdom secret
It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
wise justice handsome
So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise. William Makepeace Thackeray
wise men fool
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.