Wise Quotes - Page 13

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

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

The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

Not every light is a true light; To the wise the light of truth is light itself.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.