Wisdom Quotes - Page 166

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!

[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded and more fruitful manifestation.

When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.

If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over.

The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity.

A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.