Wise Quotes - Page 24

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.

Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God.

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

A wise traveller never despises his own country.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.

The stupid don't even understand something that happened long ago, the wise understand it before it develops.