Top 1200 Wise Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.

Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

I believe that style-wise, matchup-wise, I matchup much better against Anderson Silva than Jon Jones, but it doesn't mean that I'm scared to fight at 205.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.

The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.

We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.

Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God.

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

One has to ask what is the goal of life? What is the goal of life? My interpretation of it for myself, a very wise teacher once taught me this, is to meet the needs of the people, places and the times around you and offering those services to God.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

I have heeded the lessons of the wise in that when life kicks me in the head, I turn to it my hind section also.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

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

Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Bed and Breakfasts are really, really hard to run. You're the first one up and the last one to go to bed. You know, it really tested our strength. We became stronger from it - the whole experience from, you know, learning about it, sort of investing wise - money-wise, business-wise and then just pushing yourself. You know, it takes a lot of work to run a Bed and Breakfast. And then with a brand new baby, it triples.

It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.

I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.

Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam': Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life is too late; live today. Variant translation: Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say; Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.

If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.