Quotes on Wise

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

Wherever you are is the entry point.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection of that man; that therefore that man ought not to be afraid of anything.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.