Wise Quotes - Page 153

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

Be cheerful, if you are wise.

In a choice between love and fear, choose love.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’ still haunts many wise heads.

Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of justice is one, the other the profit we may derive therefrom. All wise men, therefore, agree that justice and profit are the two most powerful inducements to move our wills to any undertaking. Now, though men seek profit more frequently than justice, yet justice is in itself more powerful.

Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter of indifference; and, when well concerted, must be decisive.

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

The wise cares about everyone, and he becomes an example to all.

The wise man knows he doesn't know.

The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.