Wise Quotes - Page 88

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

No man ever became wise by chance.

Even the wise need wisdom.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.

I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

If anything, I hope being an artist opens up more opportunities 'cause I feel there's a lot of things I could do, like musically and stylistic-wise that I can write, but I don't really have an avenue to show it 'cause most of the things I'm writing are in Hip Hop.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.

Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.