Quotes on Wise

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. How can I describe the warmth of affection in that voice, as it gave me the answer that would forever seal my faith in the divine?

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.