Quotes About Wise

There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose. Where? In the 'word-memory' section, he said, epexegetically.

She gazed up at him. Just don't forget our new motto, Leo. 'We can always murder them later, but we can't bring them back.' My wise and clever Bride.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents."

The friendship of wise men Is tasteless as water. The friendship of fools Is sweet as wine. But the tastelessness of the wise Brings true affection And the savor of fools' company Ends in hatred.

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

Skulduggery tilted his head. "Do you have a car?" "Nope." "Then we'll take mine." "Probably wise. I think I've forgoten how to drive.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

Leading fools is like leading no one.Following a fool is like following no one.The wise make the best leaders and followers.

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

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

It was a smart move.

Time relieves the foolish from sorrow, but reason relieves the wise.

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

Roger Bacon had complained that the calendar was "intolerable to all the wise, horrible to all astronomers, and ridiculed by all computists.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. —Naguib Mahfouz

Instead of shepherds, Matthew presents the Magi, who, despite "we three kings of Orient are," are not necessarily three, not necessarily all men, certainly not kings, and most certainly not wise.

I'm not a momentary decision maker. I like well-informed decisions.

I try to be pragmatic.

David Frum, every now and again, comes up with something pretty darn brilliant.