Quotes About Wise

For Bosch such cynical thoughts came easily. He had been around the block a few times.

Therefore it seemed a dreadful injustice that these wise races should perish at the hands of creatures who were still little more than animals. It was as if vultures feasted on and squabbled over the paralyzed body of the youthful poet who could only stare at them with puzzled eyes as they slowly robbed him of an exquisite existence they would never appreciate, never know they were taking.

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

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.

Though the masters make the rules For the wise men and the fools, I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise.

The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my odd colour, but being with Doreen made me forget my worries. I felt wise and cynical as all hell.

To be useful, learning must have a worthy purpose and become a habit. A trip down this road starts with the questions "Why?" "How?" and "What?"—the major interrogatives in the English language. A wise person asks these questions virtually without thinking; a wise teacher guides his students to acquire the habit of asking them.

I hardly think it wise to put the idea of flying into the heads of impressionable teenagers who are already battling the challenges of lunacy.

Ms. Primrose was the wise head teacher who had been in charge

A romantic she was, but not a pendeja.

not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many of noble birth; but . . . God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. 1 COR. 1:26-27

The foolish will tread where the wise will not," Holmes replied. "If we waited for the wisdom of this venture, Douglas and I would still be in London." "To fools, then!" Little Huan exclaimed. "To fools!" the others declared.

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

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.

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

Base World, I trample on thy face, Thy Glory I despise, No gain I find in ought below, For God hath made me wise.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

It is, I think, the opinion of Aristotle; or if not, it is the opinion of some wise man, whose authority will be as weighty when it is as old

If I had to name my favorite media personality, it would be a tie between Jon Stewart and Trey Parker/Matt Stone. Honest, wise, funny, and right. Sam Sifton was right up there when he was writing food criticism for the 'New York Times.'

Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool.

Words that defy reality are ominous. And it's ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.