I’m moving into that eldership age, you know? I’m at the ‘wise woman’ age where it’s not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That’s a high calling and it’s a great responsibility.
No man is wise enough by himself.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.
You’ve got to be wise and take care of yourself and those around you.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that – he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad’s advice about first.
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?
A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
When I was young and less wise, I thought that being a feminist meant being independent. It meant not sacrificing your needs for anyone else’s and not relying on anyone else for even a smidgen of your happiness or well being.
I wasn’t as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me ‘How do you write?’ I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, ‘On a typewriter in the mornings when there’s nothing else to do.’
In retrospect, I’ve become wise in playing my roles in terms of acting techniques. But looking at my old performances when I was young like what I did in ‘My Lovely Sam Soon’ or ‘Secret Garden,’ there is something fresh and daring that I want to emulate now.
Do I have political heroes? Probably not wise to.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don’t regret any decisions I have made.
A wise man will take a woman’s advice even if he doesn’t understand it.
A wise man knows when to go ‘head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.
I don’t have any labels for myself, really. Sometimes, when I am out with my wife, I am just Mr. Thompson. Or at my daughter’s school, I’m Gaia’s dad. I don’t think of myself as Greg Wise, actor.
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
For the novice furniture collector, buying antiques can seem a rather daunting prospect. Nobody wants to feel that they may not make a wise choice and that ultimately they could be throwing their money away. The main thing is that you should always buy something first and foremost because you like it.
Career wise, I think the dream for many of us is some kind of late night type of show. Something where you’re allowed to be funny and you get to write, you have guests and you get to do silly skits. That is my ultimate, bucket list career moment.
I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.
I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn’t read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it’ll work as well as reading print worked for me.
Of the 25 songs we’ve recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn’t have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn’t agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
I’m not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it’s nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn’t the whole world.
All our security now depends on the wise decisions and cooperation of our leaders.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
Stories have always been incredibly comforting and can help illuminate things that are hard to understand other wise.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
We’ve had Obama for eight years, who, to me, is a model of integrity, sensitivity, empathy. He’s wise, he’s patient, he maintains his composure, and I would have voted for him again.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
It would be wise for the U.S. private sector to stay away from Iran.
When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year’s Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.
In Luke, shepherds go to find Jesus. In Matthew, an unspecified number of wise men, sometimes portrayed as kings, arrive. Nativity plays usually throw all the elements together, with kings and shepherds beating a path to the stable.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
To uphold religious tolerance, it is very wise that an adherent of a religion should not do something forbidden in another religion in front of the adherent of the latter.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
It is not government’s job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children’s health.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
