Wise Quotes - page 9

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Plato

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment, for even the very wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am quite ready to acknowledge ... that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

Socrates

The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

Immanuel Kant

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

Laozi

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

Chogyam Trungpa

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Beverly Cleary

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

Bernie Siegel

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray. (Algernon Blackwood)

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Jack Canfield

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

George Jean Nathan

I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."

Carl Schurz

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Isaac D'Israeli

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Augustus Hare

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Charles Kuralt

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Richard G. Scott

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Vartan Gregorian

A fool is known by his Speech; and a wise man by Silence. (Pythagoras)

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

Pythagoras

None but God is wise.

Pythagoras

In such green palaces the first kings reign'd, Slept in their shades, and angels entertain'd With such old counsellors they did advise, And by frequenting sacred groves grew wise.

Edmund Waller

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Charles de Lint

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