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Wise Quotes (page 39)

His response to them as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments of pleasure too powerful to be measured, too keen to be endured, and too exquisite to be intended for employment by base, unworthy man. He could interpret their naked presence in his hands only as a cosmic oversight destined to be rectified speedily, and he was driven always to make what carnal use of them he could in the... Joseph Heller
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said, “Love is the only rational act. Mitch Albom
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.? 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'? Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was... Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom. George Eliot
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. Bram Stoker
Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man. Robertson Davies
Graham Greene quote: "She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to..."
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy. Graham Greene
I've heard two ways of looking at it. One says the silent man is the wise man & the other that a man without words is a man without thought. Naturally I favor the second!"~ East of Eden John Steinbeck
Amy Grant quote: "Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance."
Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance. Amy Grant
Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today. Idries Shah
L. Frank Baum quote: "it is always wise to do one's duty, however unpleasant that..."
...it is always wise to do one's duty, however unpleasant that duty may seem to be." -Ozma L. Frank Baum
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you are wise and civilized men; an instant suffices to disturb and annihilate that supposed wisdom of which you are so proud; an unexpected event, a sharp and sudden emotion of the soul will abruptly change the most reasonable and intelligent man into a raving idiot. Michel Foucault
Laurence J. Peter quote: "It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be..."
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. Laurence J. Peter
Paulo Coelho quote: "simple things are the most valuable and only wise people..."
simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them". Paulo Coelho
To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates Plato

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