Top 1200 Wise Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

You've got to be wise and take care of yourself and those around you.

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed out and presented Earthlings with a list of secrets - a simple formula - for making life finally work on this planet without violence, killing, and war, without turmoil, pain, and suffering, without want, lack, and despair, do you think we would be wise to look it over? Even if it contradicted everything we knew to be true or thought to be so?

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

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

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

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

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

I'm always curious what the world is trying to tell story wise.

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

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

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

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

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell.

Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course; within the hour Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.

If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future.

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

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

We always knew that name-recognition wise, that was really my one weakness.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

The identity of each band is what's important for me production-wise.

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

A wise traveller never despises his own country.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!

Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door of death - but has not yet fallen. It is a world of contradictions: a time of harvest and plenty but also of cold and hardship. Here we dwell in the midst of life, but we know most keenly that all things must pass away and shrivel. Autumn turns the world from one thing into another. The year is seasoned and wise but not yet decrepit or senile.

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered an original and highly personal way to make herself an inhabitant both of the book and of George Eliot's imaginary city. Though I have read and taught the book these many years I find myself desiring to go back to it after reading Rebecca Mead's work.

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

Personality-wise, I like to avoid putting my pride on parade.

It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood. When you're tired, lie down. The fool will laugh at you but the wise man will understand.

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

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.