Top 1200 Wise Choices Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.

The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

O' youth do not disobey the words of the wise. Its better than fortune if the wise-one gives you advice.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.

To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.

Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to resist the impulse to act. It can help us to make wise, self-protective choices in and out of relationships where we might otherwise sail mindlessly along, ignoring signs of trouble.

We make choices every single day of our lives and those choices mean we must give up something in exchange for another. In economics it's called an 'opportunity cost.'

I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Choices. We all make them, sometimes more than once. Sometimes it's the choices we make over and over that define us, but more often it's the choices we don't make.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise.

Now to what...? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is culturally learned.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

In most movies, they show you somebody who is perfect looks-wise, and skills-wise, and the movie doesn't give you a choice.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

The most important choices you make are the choices about how you see yourself, the Universe, and your relationship to the Universe.

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.