Top 1200 Wise Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.

We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.

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.

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

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

Everyday is a new life to a wise man.

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.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

Whoever is not too wise is wise. [Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

We sat down and talked about who we liked comedy-wise, TV-wise, what made us laugh and what we enjoyed doing. So a lot of our tastes went into 'The Ant and Dec Show.'

Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

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

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

A wise man once said, 'Instead of crying, I keep on trying.' And that wise man is me, because I just made that up. I think.

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

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.

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

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

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

The wise are wise only because they love.

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

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

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

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 truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

Honestly, as a rapper, the Freshman list is definitely the biggest milestone. Culture-wise - anything-wise - that's the biggest stamp.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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]

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

No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to be interesting because we've got only one of them to live.

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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

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

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.