Wise Quotes - Page 174

I think people are wise to keep love and work separate.

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.

When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.

A god could hardly love and be wise.

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.

Because you have very limited time and you have to be very judicious and wise about how you spend it. But otherwise, I've always been - ever since I was a kid, I've always been coming up with ideas. So I'm able to come up with crazy ideas twice for two collections! It's fun.

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

If you want to do something, do it!

According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.