What Does It Mean To Be Wise Quotes

#1. If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

James Monroe

#2. The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good, he conquereth the evil; he is unmov'd in all. Presume not in prosperity, neither despair thou in adversity.

Robert Dodsley

#3. The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

Plato

#4. Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.

Eric Maisel

#5. The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.

Frank Church

#6. Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?

Deyth Banger

#7. I'm not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together
it doesn't mean I know how to speak about the tings that matter most to me."
"But you're doing it now
in a way."
"Yes, in a way
that's how I always say things: in a way.

Andre Aciman

#8. Nanak dukhiya sab sansaar!
This whole world is ridden with Sorrow.
Stop comparing as we all have a fucked up life, family and job! No matter what others show and potray! ;)
"Jhaak ke dekhoge (I mean kareeb se) toh pata chalega ki saamne waale ke toh zyaada phate hai" hahahahahaha

Honeya

#9. Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#10. Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

James Monroe

#11. License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

John Milton

#12. They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.

Ron Atkinson

#13. Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Cornel West

#14. Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

Walter Bagehot

#15. By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.

Norman Vincent Peale

#16. I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

Charles Grodin

#18. Ust because it's possible doesn't mean its wise

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#19. Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.

Carew Papritz

#20. A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#21. Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.

Calvin Ayre

#22. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

Linji Yixuan

#23. I'm rich! I don't mean money-wise. I mean that I have figured out how to never be around assholes at any time in my personal and professional life. That's rich.

John Waters

#24. You might be educated, but if you are not kind you are not wise.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...

John Geddes

#26. There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one.

Peter London

#27. Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.

Ben Crenshaw

#28. Just because a woman's got no teeth doesn't mean she's wise. It might just mean she's been stupid for a very long time.

Terry Pratchett

#29. One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify ... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.

Gilbert F. White

#30. Be good to people only if you like anal sex.
That's how kind people are.

Honeya

#31. People use you and what do you do? You use them too.. We all are mean!

Honeya

#32. Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going.

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