Quotes About Wisdom

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

Anger makes us all stupid.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.