Zitat des Tages über Weise / Wise:
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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?
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
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.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
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.
No man was ever wise by chance.
You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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.
The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
The wise are above books.
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 wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
