Wise Quotes - Page 30

• We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Voice, Trying, Ifs

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• If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

  Stephan Pastis

  Giving, Pages, Ifs

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• And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy-and you believe them! It's such nonsense.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Beautiful, Sexy, Believe

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• The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Flower, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Nature and the Method of Nature”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Recognition, Appreciative

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1605, e-artnow

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• One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

  Democritus

  Men, Differences, Wish

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• Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Perfect, Sobriety

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• Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Men, Tongue, Fool

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• The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

  Huey Newton

  Suicide, Moving, Commitment

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.276, Penguin

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• Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Plato, Law, Perfect

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gustave Le Bon, Charles Mackay, Wilfred Trotter, Everett Dean Martin (2017). “WHAT IS MOB MENTALITY? - 8 Essential Books on Crowd Psychology: Psychology of Revolution, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Instincts of the Herd, The Social Contract, A Moving-Picture of Democracy...”, p.252, e-artnow

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• No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

  Gregory Maguire

  War, Home, House

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Mean, Caring

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.8, Sounds True

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• It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the devil. Like is quickly shown to like. The simplicity of the dove denotes purity of action.

  Syncletica of Alexandria

  Christian, Mean, Simplicity

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• To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Success, Looks, World

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• I'd rather be funny than wise.

  Dennis Miller

  Inspirational

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• Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

  Laozi

  Philosophy, People, Littles

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• The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly.

  Laozi

  Philosophy, Eye

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• The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

  Laozi

  Philosophy, Thinking, Doe

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• The wise cares about everyone, and he becomes an example to all.

  Laozi

  Inspiring, Philosophy, Example

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• This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

  Louis L'Amour

  Girl, Fall, Voice

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

  James Holman

  Cups, Bitter, Illness

  James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10

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• Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to resist the impulse to act. It can help us to make wise, self-protective choices in and out of relationships where we might otherwise sail mindlessly along, ignoring signs of trouble.

  Harriet Lerner

  Fear, Self, Choices

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 19, 2015

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• Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

  John Cowper Powys

  Pain, Animal, Imagination

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• He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

  Robert South

  Temptation, Mind, Devil

  Robert South (1877). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions: With the Chief Heads of the Sermons, a Biographical Memoir, and General Index”, p.441

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• Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Time, Gone, Management

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