Wise Quotes - Page 28

• Anti-Zionists, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins; that the wise man looks through them to reality. This counsel many anti-Zionists seem to have neglected. They are especially disturbed by the two nouns nationalism and commonwealth, and by the adjective political. And yet these terms on examination are not at all upsetting.

  Milton Steinberg

  Men, Reality, Two

  "The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow". Book by Gil Troy, 2018.

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• Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Men, People

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• We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Caring, Lions, Blame

  Babaji Bob Kindler, Annapurna Sarada, Swami Vivekananda, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Kenneth Wapnick (2002). “Nectar #7: The Excellence of Sacrifice and Self-Effort”, p.24, Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda Associations

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• Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
  "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold;
  Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
  Than the defect; better the more than less;
  Better like Hector in the field to die,
  Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Writing, Doors, Mind

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Morituri Salutamus", (pp. 142-144), 1922.

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• There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

  Bryan White

  Business, Personality, Valleys

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• Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

  Kiana Tom

  Regret, Business, Decision

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• Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.

  Susan Sullivan

  Character, Opportunity, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Consistency, Agitation

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• To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Thinking, People

  'To all gentlemen and yeomen of England' in 'Toxophilus' (1545)

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• The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that dwelling be in which a King so mighty, so wise, and so pure, containing in Himself all good, can delight to rest? Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He told us, He created us in his own image and likeness.

  Teresa of Avila

  Kings, Men, Dwelling

  St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.32, TAN Books

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• A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

  Van Jones

  Beautiful, Jobs, Work

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.

  Bram Stoker

  Love, Believe, Men

  Bram Stoker (2003). “Dracula”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• He who lives in the realization of his oneness with this Infinite Power becomes a magnet to attract to himself a continual supply of whatsoever things he desires. ... The one who is truly wise, and who uses the forces and powers with which they are endowed, to them the great universe always opens her treasure house.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Oneness, House, Desire

  "In Tune With the Infinite - Secrets to the Law of Attraction".

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• I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother, who lived nearby and always had a kind word and some wisdom to pass on. One day she was complaining to her grandmother about some situation and her grandmother just turned to her, smiled sadly, and said, "Sometimes, darlin', you've just got to rise above yourself in this life." I've remembered that wise advice many times as I've faced trouble in my life.

  William Hudson O'Hanlon

  Adversity, Grandmother, Texas

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• I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Winning, Men

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• The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Christian, Growing Up, Tree

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• The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Thinking, Speak

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.193, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, May, Fool

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• Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Learning, Thinking, Would Be

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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• Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Men, Needs, He Man

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• Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

  George C. Williams

  Jobs, Powerful, Fighting

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• Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, War, Fighting

  Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (including His Translation of Homer). To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson”, p.233

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• Freedom is always wise.

  Alexander Meiklejohn

  Congress

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• Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fate, Vanity, Weak

  'Vanitas Vanitatum'

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• One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Men, Law

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