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Wise Quotes (page 38)

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. Henry David Thoreau
William Shakespeare quote: "Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise."
Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise. William Shakespeare
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. Neale Donald Walsch
You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted? Mitch Albom
Marilyn Monroe quote: "A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has..."
A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none. Marilyn Monroe
George R. R. Martin quote: "What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise!"
What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise! George R. R. Martin
With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is one form of vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations Bertrand Russell
Stephen Crane quote: "LVIA man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that..."
LVIA man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other. Stephen Crane
There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead. Howard Schultz
The marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage beast as man. So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit is to man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
John Steinbeck quote: "And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we..."
And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely. John Steinbeck
Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Francis Bacon
Whenever temptation comes, remember the wise counsel of the Apostle Paul, who declared, 'There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it' (1 Corinthians 10:13). Thomas S. Monson
Is there not. A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. Anna Letitia Barbauld
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink... Virginia Woolf

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