Quotes About Wise

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

You've become a clever man.

Ah, but I'm wise ," Athena said. "Wise enough to make you do it instead.

The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks lake a lake!

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

Love is the power of a wise man. It is a net for a lover. It is a tool for a clever man. Love is a song for a singer.

To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not;But, to those men that sought him sweet as summer.

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

No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.

It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.

A fool always finds something to complain about, and a wise person always finds something to appreciate.

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.

For if He assigns to His creatures the end that He wills, and chooses the means which seem good to Him to lead them to it, the end He assigns them must be good and wise, nor can He direct them towards their end other than by good and wise means.

Hush," said January. "We may be old, but we're not silly. Satan is a catchall term. It gives identity to our theory of a centralized leadership. Call him what you want, a maximum leader, a caudillo. A Genghis Khan or Sitting Bull. Or a council of wise men, or warlords. The concept is sound. Logical.

I am cunning folk, and can be no other.

She was arriving with an agenda—drop the suit against Robert, first, and agree to dissolve the association for the purpose of donating the lands to a trust—but coached herself that it would be wise to consider his concerns before she asked for anything. Archie wore a gilded cape of male vanity and would need it admired.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares," [Freya] wrote. "To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live." ...It was if someone in charge had said to me: not guilty. Permission granted to continue on with your life as usual.

I tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.

I'm a very considerate spender. I'm a shopper, and I do spend money, but I think about it first.

Celestial spirit that doth roll The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."

A sensible man knows you can't please everybody. A wise man knows you can't please anybody.