Wise Quotes - Page 29

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

It takes a long time to become young.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.

A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"

The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.