Wise Quotes - Page 33

• Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.

  Catherine Ponder

  Strings Attached, Giving, Secret

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• Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

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• Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

  Mike Rowe

  Important, Missionary, Doe

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• Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men could climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there's six more weeks of winter!

  Karen Walker

  Baby, Jesus, Winter

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• The art of governing [focusing] the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of which we spend our days. Without this art, riches and health, and skill and knowledge, will give us little satisfaction; and whatsoever else we be, we can be neither happy, nor wise, nor good.

  John Jortin

  Art, Passion, Skills

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• If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Fool, Ifs

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.9166, Delphi Classics

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• Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
  Against stupidity the very gods
  Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
  Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
  Wise foundress of the system of the world,
  Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,
  Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,
  Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,
  Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Daughter, Stars

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.435

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Coins, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

  Horace

  Future, Darkness, Obscure

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 304-06, Carmina, III. 29. 29, 1922.

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• As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

  Plautus

  Girl, Women, Long

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• The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

  Learned Hand

  Father, Generations, Realizing

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.

  Sam Levenson

  Religion, Lord, Knows

  "You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson".

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• Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Men, Artist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1090, Library of America

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• Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Cutting, Men, Mind

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

  Aristotle

  Men, Tongue, Bitter

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2228, Princeton University Press

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• Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to interpret any vision till they have first enquired the time at which it befell; for, if it were early, and of the morning sleep, they then thought that they might make a good interpretation thereof... in that the soul was then fitted for divination, and disincumbered. But if in the first sleep, or near midnight, while the soul was as yet clouded and drowned in libations, they, being wise, refused to give any interpretation.

  Anna Kingsford

  Morning, Kings, Sleep

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• This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Innovation, Age, May

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• Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

  W. Allen Wallis

  Decision, Body, May

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

  Nawang Khechog

  Trying, Kind, Humans

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• Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

  George Santayana

  Opposites, Balance, Occasions

  George Santayana (1936). “The works of George Santayana”

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• I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Pigs, Wings

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• Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Coffee, People, Action

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• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

  Walter Lippmann

  Hurt, Opponents, Ruins

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• People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Years, People, Age

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.477, Ravenio Books

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• If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Answers, Rational

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