Wise Quotes
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
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...now...that I am a wise person. As for me, I wish there were some more of us in the world, for I find it lonesome.
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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules. They can tell you that people in an ad will get you greater readership. They can tell you that a sentence should be this short or that long. They can tell you that body copy should be broken up for easier reading. They can give you fact after fact after fact. They are the scientists of advertising. But there's one little rub. Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
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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?'
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
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Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.
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Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise.
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The assembled souls of all that men held wise.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
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Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.
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Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.
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Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
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If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.
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The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
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What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
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Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
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We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds - the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.
