The Wise Quotes
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.
Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.
No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.
You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.
The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
