Quotes on Wise

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Wise investors won't try to outsmart the market.

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.