Wise Quotes - Page 27

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

Who said I was wise? I’m a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.

To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

A word to the wise to all the children of the twentieth century, whether their concern be pediatrics or geriatrics, whether they crawl on hands and knees and wear diapers or walk with a cane and comb their beards. There's a wondrous magic to Christmas, and there's a special power reserved for little people. In short, there's nothing mightier than the meek, and a merry Christmas to each and all.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.