Wise Quotes - Page 15

• I have heeded the lessons of the wise in that when life kicks me in the head, I turn to it my hind section also.

  Wes Fesler

  Frustration, Lessons, Turns

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• Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

  Tom Stoppard

  Believe, Mirrors, Advice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.

  Minna Antrim

  Men, Track, Foolish

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• Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the wise. The path of spirituality is not a bed of roses. But neither is it a chimerical mist. The Golden Shores of the Beyond are not a mere promise. The crown of human aspiration is bound to be fulfilled on the Golden Shores of the Beyond.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Bed Of Roses, Promise, Golden

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.74, Aum Publications

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• Everything is sorrow for the wise.

  Patanjali

  Sorrow

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• Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Feelings, Risk, Lucky

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

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• The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Rope, Sand

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.

  James Redfield

  Stay Positive, Events, Who We Are

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• Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Intelligent, Thinking, Elephants

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Simple, Men, Use

  Francis Bacon (1949). “The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon”

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• If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

  Alex Katz

  Artist, Style, Trying

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• He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Answers, Made

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

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• Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Heart, Men, Political

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• History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Problem, Concrete, Solve

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.78, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

  Pope Pius XI

  Design, Catholic, World

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Respect, People, Demand

  J. Donald Walters, Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda (Paramahansa) (2004). “Conversations with Yogananda”, p.70, Crystal Clarity Publishers

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• Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Silence, Dignity, Foolish

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• It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Argument, Maxims, Wisest

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• The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

  Christopher Vogler

  Teaching, Innocence, Young

  Christopher Vogler (1998). “The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers”, Michael Wiese Productions

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• Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Action, Slave

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

  David Seabury

  Best Wishes, Selfishness, Action

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• Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, Men, Losing

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• Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

  Beth Moore

  Christian, Heart, Useless

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• Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one.

  Robert Breault

  Fun, Littles, Being Loved

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• Opportunity seldom come along and knock you on the Head.

  Jon Jones

  Opportunity

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