Wise Quotes - Page 17

Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake.

The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.

A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.