Quotes on Wise

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

I thought that I was in heaven _x000D_ _x000D_ But I was sure surprised _x000D_ _x000D_ Heaven help me, I didn't see _x000D_ _x000D_ The devil in your eyes_x000D_ _x000D_ You look like an angel _x000D_ _x000D_ Walk like an angel _x000D_ _x000D_ Talk like an angel_x000D_ _x000D_ But I got wise _x000D_ _x000D_ You're the devil in disguise _x000D_ _x000D_ Oh yes you are _x000D_ _x000D_ The devil in disguise

You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn't happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.

Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.