Wise Quotes - Page 21

• This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Tools, Slavery

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.216, Penguin

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• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Government, Leader

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• When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

  Pindar

  Wisdom, Men, Thinking

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

  Epicurus

  Wisdom, Men, Intelligence

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Philosophy, Angel, Simple

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• There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.

  Edward Hoagland

  Wisdom, Fun, People

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• Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Life, Selfish, Struggle

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• The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

  Tacitus

  Men, Lust, Lasts

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• When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.

  Publilius Syrus

  Love, Love You

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• One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

  Richard Whately

  Ignorance, Men, Way

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.416

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• We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Praise, Applause, Vulgar

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Classical dialogues (Roman) Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”

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• And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!

  Russell Lynes

  Looks, Faces, Problem

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• We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Soul, Break, Strings

  Elizabeth Prentiss (1876). “Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's hero”, p.56

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• A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.

  Sivananda

  Smile, Laughter, Eye

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• ...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Letting Go, Carefree, Blindness

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• It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

  Homer

  Art, Cleverness, Prize

  Homer (1760). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.90

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• After the event, even a fool is wise.

  Homer

  Events, Fool, Hindsight

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.2084, Delphi Classics

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• A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.

  Tibullus

  Happiness, Heart, Men

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• Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

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• O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

  Mortimer Collins

  Fate, Past, Simple

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• One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Simple, One Day, Wake Up

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• Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Desire, Weakness

  Philip Massinger (1813). “The Plays”, p.335

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• There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Mind, Restless, Mortals

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing

  David Hume

  Men, Age, Done

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• It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.

  Dale E. Turner

  Perspective, Missing, Soldier

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