Wise

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts, all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

The wisest of the wise may err.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness, but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise, be wise and thou art happy.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet, no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind, the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not, he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent, the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult, the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.

In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Wise men argue causes, fools decide them.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

They're mutually incompatible I feel, being a wise thief and a wise father.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.

I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.

'The Others' books take place in an alternate Earth where the Earth natives have been the dominant predators throughout the world's history, and humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain. But humans are clever and resilient, if not always wise, and have made some bargains with the Others in order to survive.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

I'd like to be Gandalf for a day - he's so wise, he's so powerful, and he's so caring. I love Gandalf. When they remake 'Lord of The Rings,' maybe I'll play it.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently, but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

The intellect of the wise is like glass, it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

The big banks advise cities about whether privatization is a wise choice. They also control the ability of states and cities to access the market for their financing needs.

I have to convince other Democrats and Republicans that it's wise to invest in the U.S.-Mexico border, not just for security, but also for mobility and trade, and that's why we should open up the border.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it, for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good, and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all, if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self,' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life, foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn't say. Remember, it is much better to say little than to say too much and regret it later.

The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer.

I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man, you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

He that is rich is wise.

I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy.

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.

'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted', but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out, and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Be wise with speed, a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Pastors can lead the way in motivating the faithful to wise stewardship of their citizenship responsibilities. Without a healthy culture and civil society, limited government and ordered liberty will be impossible.

The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

Clever people master life, the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man, his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

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.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.

Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that, it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly, he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.