The Wise Quotes

Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.

Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

Blessed if you do... Blessed if you don't... Blessed no matter what!

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.

His bark is worse than his bite.

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

We need to keep a constant watch over our mind and learn to distinguish between the beneficial and harmful thoughts that are arising moment by moment. Those who are able to do this are truly wise.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.

To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.