Wise Quotes - Page 21

• This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Tools, Slavery

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.216, Penguin

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• Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Life, Selfish, Struggle

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• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Government, Leader

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• There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.

  Edward Hoagland

  Wisdom, Fun, People

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• Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stupid, Men, Stupid Men

  "Second Foundation".

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• Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Wine, Men, Fool

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Shadow Of The Wind”, p.254, Hachette UK

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• Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

  William Godwin

  Wisdom, Men, Liberty

  William Godwin (1796). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.261

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• Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

  Euripides

  Fate, Men, Yield

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• Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

  Charles de Lint

  Wisdom, Thinking, Fool

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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• We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Evil, Wells

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections”, p.342, 谷月社

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• A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.

  Sivananda

  Smile, Laughter, Eye

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• ...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Letting Go, Carefree, Blindness

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• Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

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• Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Heart, Men, Looks

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Soul, Break, Strings

  Elizabeth Prentiss (1876). “Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's hero”, p.56

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• A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.

  Tibullus

  Happiness, Heart, Men

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• It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.

  Dale E. Turner

  Perspective, Missing, Soldier

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• A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Hair, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.209, Penguin

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• One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Simple, One Day, Wake Up

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• After the event, even a fool is wise.

  Homer

  Events, Fool, Hindsight

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.2084, Delphi Classics

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• It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing

  David Hume

  Men, Age, Done

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• Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Desire, Weakness

  Philip Massinger (1813). “The Plays”, p.335

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• There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Mind, Restless, Mortals

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

  Mortimer Collins

  Fate, Past, Simple

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• Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Men, Volcanoes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.358

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