Wise Quotes - Page 68

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.

Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

Now I got kids and I'm more wise now. Life means more to me than having fun. I'm more calm, more wise, and more cautious.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend — perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.

O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they insult us with words for Your sake.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive! Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!