The Wise Quotes
Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.
Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!
Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"
I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.
What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.
The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.
A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.
Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.
If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You. Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You. No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ... Anything I am entirely is You!
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.
Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.