How To Be Wise Quotes
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.
Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.
If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.
Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.
If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.
It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.