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Quotes About Wise

In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
~ Nancy Gibbs
When faith is in fullest operation, it pictures a future with a God who is so powerful and so loving and so wise and so satisfying that this future-picturing faith experiences assurance. Now.
~ John Piper
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
~ John Podesta
She put every ounce of determination she possessed into the song, scoring it in the mode used from the old and wise to the young and foolish. It worked, but just barely.
~ John Varley
Let all that do ill, take this precedent: Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. And of all axioms this shall win the prize, 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
~ John Webster
Be ye innocent as doves yet wise as serphants" new testament quoted by Elvis Presley and applied to karate
~ Elvis Presley
If it is characteristic of the wise man to do nothing useless, no one will surpass me in wisdom: I do not even lower myself to useful things.
~ Emil M. Cioran
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.
~ Bai Ling
But in our dislike of the individual do not let us mistake the diagnosis of his disease. He suffers not from ignorance but from stupidity. Give him learning and you make him not wise, but only more pretentious in his folly.
~ balfour arthur james iii
Though surnamed the Wise, he was not immune from the occupational disease of rulers: overestimation of their capacity to control events. No
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
the ruling class in a just society should be men apprenticed to the art of ruling, drawn from the rational and wise.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
She is the idol of the wise, The mistress of the rhyming race; But pain lurks in her luring eyes, And bitter-sweet is her embrace.
~ barker elsa ii
Kids are always very savvy. It doesn't take long for a kid to realize when an adult is a loser.
~ Taika Waititi
I'm not reckless. I was never reckless.
~ Richard Hammond
I'm a lot of things, but I'm not reckless.
~ Sam Hinkie
Immeasurably imperfect it was, but false the impression could not be, for she saw with the eyes made for seeing, and saw indeed what many men are too wise to see.
~ George MacDonald
Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling.
~ George S. Clason
The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Prov. 12:18 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
Whoever heeds life-giving correction will be at home among the wise. Those who disregard discipline despise themselves, but the one who heeds correction gains understanding. (Prov. 15:31–32 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
Wise conduct is the key to happiness. Always rule by gods and reverence them. Those who overbear will be brought to grief. Fate will flail them on its winnowing floor And in due season teach them to be wise.
~ Seamus Heaney
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
~ William Shakespeare
If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.
~ Atul Gawande
Let the people keep a watchful eye over the conduct of their rulers," he explained, "for we are told that great men are not at all times wise. It would be indeed a wonder if in any age or country they were always honest.
~ Stacy Schiff