Wise Quotes - Page 120

Because the math is, if you - 5 percent of a million is a lot more than 5 percent of a thousand. So yeah, someone who makes more money, numerically, it's gonna be higher. But the greatest gains, percentage-wise, for people, are gonna be at the lower end of our plan.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the devil. Like is quickly shown to like. The simplicity of the dove denotes purity of action.

Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

One has to ask what is the goal of life? What is the goal of life? My interpretation of it for myself, a very wise teacher once taught me this, is to meet the needs of the people, places and the times around you and offering those services to God.

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.

The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action.

If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you’re a better man than I

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE

A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.

Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?

I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Priority-wise, it simply makes sense to take care of yourself before you start searching for a higher meaning. You aren't much good to anyone else if you're unhealthy, a financial burden, or an emotional basket case. Fix yourself before you turn outward. It's best for everyone.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.