Wise Quotes - Page 36

If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Watchfulness is the path of immortality: Unwatchfulness is the path of death. Those who are watchful never die: Those who do not watch are already as dead. Those who with a clear mind have seen this truth, Those who are wise and ever watchful, They feel the joy of watchfulness, The joy of the path of the great. And those who in high thought and in deep contemplation With ever living power advance on the path, They in the end reach NIRVANA, The peace supreme and infinite joy. ~ Buddha

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.