When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don’t honor them enough, we don’t pay them enough.
As cliche as that sounds, Maya Angelou is one of the best writers I’ve ever read. She’s very wise and to the point.
The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
I think anyone can do a book if they want to, it’s just timing- wise.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It’s like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
My favorite one, it depends. As far as rap wise, I like ‘Ask ‘Bout Me.’ I like that one. It’s like a statement: this is who I am. This is why I’m here. If you don’t know, you’re about to find out.
I was fortunate to have a dad who was very involved, very present, very wise.
During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
It’s not very wise to keep a player who has just one year left on his contract and really wants to leave.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
It’s a wise thing to hold back.
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
They’re mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn’t think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it’s very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
‘Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
The proud road travelled by Chongryon bears the imprints of the wise guidance and painstaking efforts of the great leaders, who strengthened and developed Chongryon into a Juche-based overseas compatriots’ body that represents the rights and interests of all the Koreans resident in Japan.
I think the Chinese are wise. After all, they know the U.S. is in a very different league than Russia. The U.S. is the major power in the world, and the US-China relationship… is very important to global stability, to sustain global economic growth.
I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics as much as seems reasonable because the economists who use more mathematics are somehow more respected than those who use less. That’s the trend.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil – of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried to alienate me from my family, to whom I am very close, and from my friends. So I just drifted away. In seeing my three-month involvement as ‘just a phase,’ my parents were lucky rather than wise.
My mom is an exceptionally wise and kind person.
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
Film wise, I always just kind of watch the offense overall.
Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it’s wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don’t avoid.
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Hairdressers are all-knowing. They’re so wise.
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn’t suffer fools gladly.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Job’s avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it’s strictly because God is so powerful, and you don’t fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.
God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.
As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.
Career wise, I’m looking into different opportunities to do a TV show, but in some way that’s not a goal in itself. To me, the goal is creating content and doing fun stuff that I’m proud to show. I don’t want to do a TV show for the sake of doing it.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don’t have to do anything else. We don’t have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the adoption.
The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.
I learned how to be tough, and that transcended into something else, that I wasn’t going to back down from anything, academically, football wise, any challenge I was presented with.
The people of western North Carolina are wise and discerning.
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.
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn’t seem like fun to me.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.
The bottom line is that finding orphan planets – small, faint, and located who-knows-where – is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few.
A word to the wise is enough.
I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.
