Wise Quotes
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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.
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 wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.
Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.
A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.
Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.
If you take a little time and watch forensics, and see what men, sick-minded men do ... I don't know whether it's wise for women to feed the sickness that's in the man.
Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset
The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.
A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.
When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.
It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
