The Wise Quotes
She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.
Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.
No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.
Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.
The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
It is wise to remember that too much success in the stock market is in itself an excellent warning.
Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.
Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.
When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.
Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
