Wise Quotes - Page 42

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.

A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

The wise man’s home is the universe.

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.