Wise

Famous quotes containing the word wise:

    The novel is not “a crazy quilt of bits”; it is a logical sequence of psychological events: the movements of stars may seem crazy to the simpleton, but wise men know the comets come back.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 2:2.

    The Wise men.