Wise Quotes
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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
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God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.
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I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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Writing-wise, I started when I was 17. Whatever was bothering me, I could just write about it in a song. I was in the west suburbs of Chicago, then I moved an hour south, and then I went to school up on the South Side - Saint Xavier, though I was at Purdue for a second before I dropped out.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,'Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away.'
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Just as I am working hard to adjust to a new level, someone comes along and asks me to move up again. I'm not complaining about it; I just get on with trying to make sure I don't let anyone down. Training with England is just a different gravy again. Movement-wise, finishing-wise, you can learn such a lot from watching the very best in action.
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Acting-wise, I've had all these experiences. Yet when I look at certain people whose careers I admire, they've gotten to play so many different characters.
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I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.
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All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
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Is very hard to find, like, a recipe to feel good fitness-wise, tennistically, mentally.
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The wise are above books.
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I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from way back. I'm not putting jazz down, but I'm not a jazz singer...I've recorded all kinds of music, but (to them) I'm either a jazz singer or a blues singer. I can't sing a blues – just a right-out blues – but I can put the blues in whatever I sing. I might sing 'Send In the Clowns' and I might stick a little bluesy part in it, or any song. What I want to do, music-wise, is all kinds of music that I like, and I like all kinds of music.
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The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
