Wise Quotes
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Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.
Stéphane Paut
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Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.
Charles Alexander Eastman
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
Jonathan Swift
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There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
William E. Gladstone
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None but God is wise.
Pythagoras
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
Thomas More
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The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
Gautama Buddha
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Carson McCullers
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Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.
Brigham Young
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I think that the love of the really happy husband and wife—not purged of passion, but with passion heated to a white heat of intensity and purity and tenderness and consideration, and with many another feeling added thereto—is the loftiest and most ennobling influence that comes into the life of any man or woman, even loftier and more ennobling than the wise and tender love for children.
Edmund Morris
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Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
Thomas Carlyle
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Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
Homer
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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
Gautama Buddha
