Quotes About Wise

My entire life, I was told I was an old soul. I never really connected with other children when I was growing up.

It is evil," the Old Wise One said. "For very long we have walked carefree in the only paradise. It would be better if all here were to die." The last Shadow child said firmly, "Nothing is worse than that I should die," and something that had wrapped the world was gone.

It had become the face of a scholar of the worst kind, of the sort of man who has studied many things hidden from common men and grown wise and corrupt. He

Probabilities—the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty.

similar, but they are actually worlds apart. An idiot is incapable

Our intention is that of a shepherd, but our actions are those of a loving, wise, compassionate leader. If we all act according to this code, we will create an enlightened society.

In truth, prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

AUTHORITY intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

But experience shows that in spite of our infinite care in choosing our successors the mediocre emperors will always outnumber the wise, and that at least one fool will be reign per century. In time of crisis these bureaus, if well organized, will go on with what must be done, filling the interim between two good rulers. Some emperors like to parade behind them whole lines of barbarians, bound at the neck, those interminable processions of the conquered.

We know the dear old rhyme: — "It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.

The duchess was in her way a clever woman, and could see many things. She

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.

A drunk grows sober before a fool grows wise," says my mother, more health to her.

A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.

On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.