I think that it’s more important for an economist to be wise and sophisticated in scientific method than it is for a physicist because with controlled laboratory experiments possible, they practically guide you; you couldn’t go astray. Whereas in economics, by dogma and misunderstanding, you can go very sadly astray.
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.
There are certain things that I do – I don’t eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
When I wrote ‘Runaways,’ I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I’m a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
Saying you don’t want to enter every potential war in the Middle East doesn’t make you an isolationist; it makes you wise.
I’m a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I’m not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything – I’d kill myself. I can’t take all those little things they dissect. I’m like, ‘Oh my God, get a life.’ I don’t have time for this.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Wise people, my parents.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don’t mean to be a wise guy.
Senator Tester is wise enough to make sure his voice is heard in a positive manner to get things done.
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Good nutrition must be at the core of all that you do training and health wise.
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Show Me The Funny’ was not very successful ratings wise, but the right people saw me.
There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.
Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.
Work wise, as a stunt woman, I enjoy telly – or TV – because – and, as an actor – I kind of enjoy the urgency of it. I enjoy the problem-solving that’s happening. Right now, we don’t have time to rehearse for hours. And, if something goes wrong, we don’t have time to shoot something else for four days until we sort it out.
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I’d like to turn into a wise old thing.
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
Mo’Nique is so full of love. I’ve been describing her as the tree in ‘Pocahontas.’ She’s so wise and loving. She is just everything.
Poland needs reform of the judiciary, but I am a supporter of a wise reform.
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Pastors can lead the way in motivating the faithful to wise stewardship of their citizenship responsibilities. Without a healthy culture and civil society, limited government and ordered liberty will be impossible.
Script wise, the story of ‘Eega’ is universal. It’s a simple story which everyone can understand.
Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.
When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
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.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
I love reading Warren Buffett’s letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He’s a very wise guy.
We always knew that name-recognition wise, that was really my one weakness.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
I think I have become wise enough, because I started at a young age and know there are ups and downs in this business – I’ve realised it’s not real.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Collecting shoes is my biggest hobby. I’ve got a couple hundred pairs of Nikes and Jordans. I got a lot of hats, too. I like to play basketball, but nothing competition wise.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
I don’t think it’s wise to shut down the government.
I’ve always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn’t. Be wise and don’t let good things crowd out those that are essential.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
