Wise Quotes - Page 132

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.

Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.

True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.