Wise Quotes - Page 24

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

  Robert Breault

  Reading, Fool, Wise Sayings

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• Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

  William Penn

  Knowledge, Treasure, Judgment

  "The Select Works of William Penn".

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• One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Humble, Pride

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• When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

  Linji Yixuan

  Wisdom, Clever, Tired

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• In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

  Max De Pree

  Motivational, Change, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Stupid, Political, News

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1792, Random House

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• One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Wisdom, Different, Way

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• The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

  Lee Child

  Fighting, Men, Said

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• It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ignorant, Disease

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.391, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Darkness, Common

  Charles Caleb Colton (1837). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think”, p.97

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• Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.

  Robert Dessaix

  Space, Delight, Wonder

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• To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, May, Tasks

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.99, Penguin

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• The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Men, Advantage

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1838). “Works”, p.644

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• A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Hatred, Patient

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• It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Government, People, Should

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Wisdom, Men

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• The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

  Ivan Panin

  Wisdom, Men, Tongue

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• Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

  Peter Brimelow

  Clever, Men, Good Man

  Peter Brimelow (1988). “The patriot game: Canada and the Canadian question revisited”, Key Porter Books, [1988]

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• 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.

  Stephen Colbert

  Remember You, Remembers You, People

  Stephen Colbert Commencement Address, departments.knox.edu. June 2006.

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• It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.

  Paracelsus

  Stars, Mean, Power

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• I am learning. I'm a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise.

  Sheryl Crow

  Relationship, Three, Learners

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• Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

  Cary Grant

  Taste, Enough, Standards

  Nancy Lynn Nelson, Cary Grant (1991). “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best”, William Morrow & Company

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• Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

  George Eliot

  Book, Half, Tombs

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.155

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• The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

  Publilius Syrus

  Future, Men, Ifs

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• We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.

  Yoko Ono

  Wisdom, Clever, Air

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