Wise Quotes - page 82

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made. (Rudolf Steiner)
He is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful warfare against his own appetites and passions, and has them under wise and full control. View quote
Tryon Edwards
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction. View quote
Tryon Edwards
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. View quote
Edward Everett Hale
Human opinions are formed by accident and hardened by repetition. We cling to acquired opinions only because they give the illusion of being wise opinions. This creates division and hostility between people. View quote
Vernon Howard
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. View quote
Frank Herbert
When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." View quote
Frank Herbert
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. View quote
John Milton
He was so crafty and cunning in petty things, as the circumventing of any great man, the change of a Favourite, &c. insomuch as a very wise man was wont to say that he believed him the wisest fool in Christendom, meaning him wise in small things, but a fool in weighty affairs. View quote
James I of England
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The task of Government is that of application and encouragement. A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. View quote
Winston Churchill
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. View quote
Winston Churchill
We affirm it and we shall proclaim it from the mountaintops, that all people – be they black or white, be they brown or yellow, be they rich or poor, be they wise or fools, are created in the image of the Creator and are his children! View quote
Nelson Mandela
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. View quote
Halldór Laxness
All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it. View quote
Pericles
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him. View quote
Bayard Taylor
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. View quote
Akhenaten
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The democracy of America must not be confounded with the democracies of old Europe. It is not the scum of turbulent cities, nor is it a mere section of an excited middle class speculating in shares and calling it progress. It is a territorial democracy, if I may use that epithet without offending hon. Gentlemen opposite. Aristotle, who has taught us most of the wise things we know, never said a wiser thing than that the cultivators of the soil are the class least inclined to sedition and to violent courses. (Benjamin Disraeli)
The movement of the middle classes for the abolition of slavery was virtuous, but it was not wise. It was an ignorant movement. It showed a want of knowledge both of the laws of commerce and the stipulations of treaties; and it has alike ruined the colonies and aggravated the slave trade...The history of the abolition of slavery by the English and its consequences, would be a narrative of ignorance, injustice, blundering, waste, and havoc, not easily paralleled in the history of mankind. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness. View quote
Pliny the Elder
Learn from me that a wise man who has heard a criminal accusation related with so many absurd particulars ceases to be wise when he makes himself the echo of what he has heard, for if the accusation should turn out to be a calumny, he would himself become the accomplice of the slanderer. View quote
Giacomo Casanova