Top 1200 Most Wise Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

I am not calling 'Aravindha' a wise movie because it's a blockbuster.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

My body is very wise; it knows how to heal itself.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

Drinks-wise, I stick to water, sometimes a Diet Coke.

Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all.

One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love.

You grow most in your areas of greatest strength. You will improve the most, be the most creative, be the most inquisitive, and bounce back the fastest in those areas where you have already shown some natural advantage over everyone else your strengths. This doesn't mean you should ignore your weaknesses. It just means you'll grow most where you're already strong.

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

Men mark the passion of Christ, and print it on their heart somewhat to follow it. It was the most voluntary passion that ever was suffered, and the most painful. It was most voluntary, and so most meritorious.

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

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

If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.

I was always the wise guy class clown throughout my childhood.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.

I admire Gaga. She's very talented and wise, that girl.

The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet. The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet. The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet. And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you I haven't said yet.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Getting all the things down game-management wise, that's what I want to excel at.

I think anyone can do a book if they want to, it's just timing- wise.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

We've been through a lot personally, emotionally and career-wise.

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.