Quotes About Wise

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Wine and wealth change wise men's manners.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous, and fortune is so blind that in a crowd in which there is perhaps but one wise and brave man it is not to be expected that she should single him out.

was, and remains, a sort of Sphinx of the American West: His eyes had seen things, his mind held secrets, but he kept his mouth shut.

I love her courage and heart! Funny, poignant, wise, and woke—an ideal travel companion." —Joan Walsh (The Nation, CNN)

He who strives for happiness is a fool. The wise man makes happiness for another.

Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Women

Sex attraction is so purely a question of the taste of the individual that the wise man never argues about it. He accepts its vagaries as part of the human mystery, and leaves it at that.

The greatest factor in achieving spiritual success is willingness. Jesus said, "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few."12 People of the world seek the gifts of God, but he who is wise seeks the Giver Himself.

the work of the philosopher Manly P. Hall: If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

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there is no one on earth as dangerous as a really clever fool.

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, they (bankers) know that history is inflationary, and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

They (wise people) speak of the indestructible ASHWATTHA tree* as having its roots above and branches below, whose leaves are the

Are you sure that's wise?" she asked. "I mean, the last time you opened this gate, you let a killer stroll right in to our world. What if it happens again?

There are always options. And a wise man always has more than one plan.

For some people love is like a king they swear allegiance to. That kind of person has to be released from one bond before they can begin to forge another one. All very conventional behavior, but fiercely interior convention. I'm not trying to imply that such people are wise or that they impress me -- I'm one of them, and it's probably the most futile form of integrity going. But if it's a side dish to other forms of integrity, then it's all right.

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.