Wise Quotes - page 77

Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the most sorrow upon themselves. (Euripides)
A wise person is one who sees the effect of an action before he acts. View quote
Baba Hari Dass
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. View quote
Richard Gere
Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip. View quote
Louis Farrakhan
And, frankly, for the sake of the argument, let us call him a fool; - then had I rather be a fool than a wise man. -I love all men who dive. View quote
Herman Melville
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on. The unwise are those who bring nothing constructive to the process, and who greatly imperil the future of mankind by leaving great questions to be fought out between ignorant change on one hand and ignorant opposition to change on the other. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
They'll lead us bit by bit toward the revolutionary idea that we've grown about as powerful as it's wise to grow; that the rush of technological innovation that's marked the last five hundred years can finally slow, and spread out to water the whole delta of human possibility. But those decisions will only emerge if people understand the time for what it is: the moment when we stand precariously on the sharp ridge between the human past and the posthuman future, the moment when meaning might evaporate in a tangle of genes or chips. View quote
Bill McKibben
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles. View quote
Émile Zola
It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes. (John C. Maxwell)
There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall. View quote
Thomas Brooks
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. View quote
Mary Wilson
Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise. View quote
Caroline Myss
It is not wise warfare to throw your ammunition to the enemy unless you throw it from the cannon's mouth. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who hold that it is no matter what happens after them, hold a wicked and inhuman doctrine... When we feel in our hearts this indifference to the fleeting, and this warm regard for the permanent, let us believe that God has implanted the instinct for a wise purpose; and then follow it as a heavenly guide. It is manifestly intended to turn us from the labors of the day - from the things which perish when the hand which formed ceases to uphold them - to tile things and objects which endure through indefinite ages - renewing, I should rather say augmenting their magnitude and their benificent fruits with every successive generation. View quote
Daniel Drake
In the world as we find it, even the barest requirements of a life worth living cannot all be always met in full. Toppling a tyranny may trigger civil war. Protecting a broad range of liberal freedoms may result in the regime that guarantees them being short lived. At the same time, supporting a strong state as a bulwark against anarchy may worsen the abuse of power. Wise policy can temper these conflicts. It cannot hope to overcome them. View quote
John N. Gray
By way of compensation, we must lay far more stress on "Wise" and "Good." View quote
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Awestruck at the sight of the mysteries of the earth, thus unveiled before my unworthy eye, I said to my Companion, "Behold, I am become as a God. For the wise men in our country say that to see all things, or as they express it, OMNIVIDENCE, is the attribute of God alone." There was something of scorn in the voice of my Teacher as he made answer: "Is it so indeed? Then the very pick-pockets and cut-throats of my country are to be worshiped by your wise men as being Gods: for there is not one of them that does not see as much as you see now. But trust me, your wise men are wrong." View quote
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once blown for ever dies. (Edward FitzGerald (poet))
I hold no dream of fortune vast, Nor seek undying fame. I do not ask when life is past That many know my name.I may not own the skill to rise To glory's topmost height, Nor win a place among the wise, But I can keep the right.And I can live my life on earth Contented to the end, If but a few shall know my worth And proudly call me friend. View quote
Edgar Guest
Oh, youth, go forth and do! You, too, to fame may rise; You can be strong and wise. Stand up to life and play the man - You can if you'll but think you can; The great were once as you. You envy them their proud success? 'Twas won with gifts that you possess. View quote
Edgar Guest
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish to rage and be furious is brutish and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. View quote
Isaac Watts