Zitat des Tages über Weise Männer / Wise Men:
I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
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.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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 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.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
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.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.
