The Wise Quotes

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.

To become wise, meditate on the third eye, between the eyebrows and a little bit above. Focus on that spot, the Agni chakra.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.

True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.

If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a mirror of infinity. That is wisdom.

The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.

Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.

In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.

If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy in your life and how to be balanced, wise, and funny.

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

None wise dares hopeless venture.

Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.

A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.