The Wise Quotes

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.

It is never too late to be wise.

Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.

Fools rush in, where wise men never go, But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb. If I were a Wise Man I would do my part. Yet what can I give Him? I give Him my heart.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.