Quotes on Wise

Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct their affairs, has not been seen, perhaps, on earth. Or if it existed for a moment at the birth of ours, it would not be easy to fix the term of its continuance. Still, I believe it does exist here in a greater degree than anywhere else; and for its growth and continuance... I offer sincere prayers.

...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living in western society, people who are not repressed, who are free. We can choose. The things go largely like you want them to go. You control your own life. Your own will is extremely powerful.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy_x000D_ _x000D_ A little I can read.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.