The Wise Quotes
We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said." Love is the only rational act.
The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.
A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!
The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.
The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.
An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.
There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.
To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.
Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.