Wise Quotes - Page 72

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but to relieve the residue of the wrong that is alive within us. We forgive because it is less painful than holding on to resentment. We forgive because without it we condemn ourselves to repeating endlessly the very trauma or situation that hurt us so. We forgive because ultimately it is the smartest action to take on our own behalf. We forgive because it restores to us a sense of inner balance.

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

[When we drop our agendas] we begin to cultivate a mind of true goodness and compassion, which comes out of a concern for the Whole. As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of giving or of making a sacrifice. We become open, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.

I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

He gave me the brochure. It was about the Hunters of Artemis. The front read, A WISE CHOICE FOR YOUR FUTURE! Inside were pictures of young maidens doing hunter stuff, chasing monsters, shooting bows. There were captions like: HEALTH BENEFITS: IMMORTALITY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU! and A BOY-FREE TOMORROW! "I found that in Annabeth's backpack," Grover said. I stared at him. "I don't understand." "Well, it seems to me… maybe Annabeth was thinking about joining." I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.

Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.