The Wise Quotes
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.
The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.
The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.
Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.
The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot!
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.
A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.
Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.
No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".
It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
