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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it. (Hedy Lamarr)
And now I want to tell you about my late Uncle Alex. He was my father's kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
We do not have a complete and satisfying knowledge of the world. We are reduced to the simple conclusion that everywhere in the world there is life like ourselves and that all life is shrouded in mystery. A true acquaintance with the world consists in being filled with a sense of the mystery of existence and life. This mystery becomes only more mysterious with every advance in scientific research. To be filled with the mystery of life is like that which is called in the language of mysticism the "wise ignorance," an ignorance which is nonetheless knowledge of the essential. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them. View quote
Herman Melville
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. View quote
Herman Melville
O wise among all Angels ordinate, God foiled of glory, god betrayed by fate, Satan, O pity my long wretchedness! O Prince of Exile doomed to heinous wrong, Who, vanquished, riseth ever stark and strong, Satan, O pity my long wretchedness! Thou knowest all, proud king of occult things, Familiar healer of man's sufferings, Satan, O pity my long wretchedness! Thy love wakes thirst for Heaven in one and all: Leper, pimp, outcast, fool and criminal, Satan, O pity my long wretchedness! View quote
Charles Baudelaire
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. View quote
William Arthur Ward
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. View quote
William Arthur Ward
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. View quote
William Arthur Ward
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. View quote
John Patrick
Nations are divided into "good"and "bad"-the enemy is all bad, one's own nation is of spotless virtue. Wars are either acts of God or acts of the other nations, which always catch us completely by surprise. To a student of international systems the national image even of respectable, intellectual, and powerful people seems naive and untrue. The patriotism of the sophisticated cannot be a simple faith. There is, however, in the course of human history a powerful and probably irreversible movement toward sophistication. We can wise up, but we cannot wise down, except at enormous cost in the breakdown of civilizations, and not even a major breakdown results in much loss of knowledge. (Kenneth Boulding)
I support the Kinder-Guardians program. We in America would be wise to implement it, too. It's something that we should think about, America, about putting guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, good guys, whether they be teachers or whether they actually be talented children or highly-trained preschoolers. View quote
Trent Lott
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. View quote
Edward Young
Wise it is to comprehend the whole. View quote
Edward Young
Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen. View quote
Dana Gioia
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. View quote
Arthur Ashe
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. (Victor Hugo)
The wise will make their anger cool At least before 'tis night. View quote
Isaac Watts
Yet it is incumbent on those in high places to make wise decisions and it is reasonable and important that the public be correctly informed. It is consequently incumbent on all of us to state the facts as forthrightly as possible. View quote
Hyman G. Rickover
It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. View quote
Hyman G. Rickover
The search for the sense of humour is as fruitless and as enduring as the hunt for the unicorn; the really wise man knows that the unicorn, being no reality but a life-enhancing myth, must never be hunted, and may only be glimpsed by the well-disposed and the lucky; it cannot be captured, and it is encountered only by indirection. View quote
Robertson Davies