Quotes About Wise

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

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

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

ADAPTIVE CHILD WISE ADULT Black & White Nuanced Perfectionistic Realistic Relentless Forgiving Rigid Flexible Harsh Warm Hard Yielding Certain Humble Tight in body Relaxed in body

Even a blockhead may respect inspire, So long as he is suitably attired; A fool may gain esteem among the wise, So long as he has sense to hold his tongue.

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.

I have always been fond of Josh Billings's remark that "it is much easier to be a harmless dove than a wise serpent." There are plenty of decent legislators, and plenty of able legislators; but the blamelessness and the fighting edge are not always combined. Both qualities are necessary for the man who is to wage active battle against the powers that prey.

On the contrary, Augustine says (Octog. Tri. Quaest. qu. xlvi),"Such is the power inherent in ideas, that no one can be wise unless they are understood.

Folly is that wisdom which is wise only behindhand.

New Yorkers are smart.

We're a superstitious breed, we Irish, and wise enough to build around a faerie hill without disturbing it, to leave a stone dance where it stands. And to keep back from a place where the dark still thrums.

It's all right to be crazy, it's not all right to be stupid.

She was a well-traveled and worldy mole, this Sibyl

I have met the town idiot, who declares that all the automobiles in the world are of less value than a single human life. I have met the most harmless inhabitant of Pine Beach: a wise man.