Wise Quotes - Page 124

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.

Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

Keep a cool head and a warm heart. A mantra that became a song, inspired by the wise words of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you are wise and civilized men; an instant suffices to disturb and annihilate that supposed wisdom of which you are so proud; an unexpected event, a sharp and sudden emotion of the soul will abruptly change the most reasonable and intelligent man into a raving idiot.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time available. I think that makes a huge difference. I think he instinctively knows how to make films and all the different ways that you can make stuff. He's very gadget-wise, and he's very smart about all the different things that are available to a filmmaker nowadays, and he makes very good use of them. He has a theater in his house, for God's sake. It has proper curtains on it and everything. It's pretty wild.

Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained.