Wise Quotes - Page 32

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.

Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it.

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.

According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back

Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.