Wise Quotes - page 81

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. (Coventry Patmore)
... power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power Transformative leadership. View quote
Warren Bennis
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise. View quote
Sallust
Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand. View quote
Sallust
The Whites were in full control ... remnants were shifted about again and again... All of which led Sioux chief Spotted Tail, grown old and wise, to ask the weary question: "Why does not the Great Father put his red children on wheels, so he can move them as he will?" View quote
Peter Farb
Say that I live, but in such wise that I would not live. View quote
Ovid
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind. View quote
Sophocles
Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn. View quote
Sophocles
Hail the mild morning, where the dawn began, The full fruition of the hopes of man. Where sage Experience seals the sacred cause, And that rare union, Liberty and Laws, Speaks to the reas'ning race "to freedom rise, Like them be equal, and like them be wise." View quote
Joel Barlow
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. View quote
Mark Twain
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. (Mark Twain)
The stately ship is seen no more, The fragile skiff attains the shore; And while the great and wise decay, And all their trophies pass away, Some sudden thought, some careless rhyme, Still floats above the wrecks of Time. View quote
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
We do not have even fragments of the teachings of former World Teachers given prior to certain knowledge of Their existence. We do not have the teachings of a Christ, or a Buddha, or a Krishna, except seen through the eyes of later followers. For the first time we are given the flavor of the thoughts and insights of a Being of immeasurable stature to enable us to understand the path of evolution stretching ahead of us which He has come to outline for us. The impression left in the mind by the Teacher is that the breadth and depth of His knowledge and awareness have no limits; that He is tolerant and wise beyond conception, and of amazing humility. View quote
Benjamin Creme
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
When trouble comes, wise men take to their work weak men take to the woods. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. View quote
Robert South
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. View quote
Robert South
The things that make us happy make us wise. View quote
John Crowley
Since ever and ever the world began They danced like a ribbon of flame, They have sung their song through the centuries long, And yet it is never the same. And though you be foolish or though you be wise, With hair of silver or gold, You can never be as young as the fairies are, And never be as old. View quote
Rose Fyleman
For the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand and sugar. Be like the wise ant which seizes only the sugar, and leaves the sand untouched. View quote
Mahavatar Babaji
In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've become accustomed to the title of Military Superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there. We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products and wise investments. (Barack Obama)
Leadership means a wise application of military power, and rallying the world behind causes that are right. View quote
Barack Obama
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. View quote
Karl Jaspers
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question. View quote
Karl Jaspers
A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. 'I got it from my good judgment,' he answered. And where did his good judgment come from 'I got it from my bad judgment.' View quote
Sydney J. Harris