Wise Quotes
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.
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A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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A wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything, including her mouth.
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Hair-wise, the move for me is to not wash it. I try to only wash it when I have to or for a shoot or something.
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Hairdressers are all-knowing. They're so wise.
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Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
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A far greater glory is it to the wise to die for freedom, the love of which stands in very truth implanted in the soul like nothing else, not as a casual adjunct but an essential part of its unity, and cannot be amputated without the whole system being destroyed as a result.
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
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Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
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The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.
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If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold of and use the Holy Spirit; but if we think of Him in the biblical way as a divine Person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then our thought will constantly be, 'How can the Holy Spirit get hold of and use me?'
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The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
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Let us develop an agenda for children that says we can do something about teen pregnancy. Let us make sure that parents are old enough, wise enough, and financially able to take care of their children.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.
