Quotes on Wise

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

No man ever became wise by chance.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.