Top 1200 Good Wise Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

The ageless Dennis Wise, now in his thirties.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children that the leaders are good and their policies are wise. The core is religious intolerance. The sides simply change between the Atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Unitarians, etc., depending whether you are talking about the Soviet Union, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, America, etc. A common second reason is to prepare the boys to go to war and the girls to cheer them on.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.

In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: have a sense of humor.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.

My favorite commentator, NBA-wise, is probably Doris Burke.

Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.

A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.

The wise man never loses his temper.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy.

If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

It's not wise to just blindly copy what others are doing.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.