Wise Quotes - Page 24

• One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

  Robert Breault

  Reading, Fool, Wise Sayings

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• Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

  William Penn

  Knowledge, Treasure, Judgment

  "The Select Works of William Penn".

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• When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

  Linji Yixuan

  Wisdom, Clever, Tired

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• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Humor, Fools Day

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 8, 1595.

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• The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Stupid, Political, News

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1792, Random House

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• One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Humble, Pride

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• One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Wisdom, Different, Way

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• The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

  Lee Child

  Fighting, Men, Said

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• It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ignorant, Disease

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.391, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Darkness, Common

  Charles Caleb Colton (1837). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think”, p.97

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• Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.

  Robert Dessaix

  Space, Delight, Wonder

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• To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, May, Tasks

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.99, Penguin

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• The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Men, Advantage

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1838). “Works”, p.644

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• A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Hatred, Patient

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• To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Wisdom, Men

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• It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Government, People, Should

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• The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

  Ivan Panin

  Wisdom, Men, Tongue

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• Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

  Peter Brimelow

  Clever, Men, Good Man

  Peter Brimelow (1988). “The patriot game: Canada and the Canadian question revisited”, Key Porter Books, [1988]

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• Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions, I see religion as the winnower of the wisdom of the human race. Of course, not everything about these religions is wise. Their social patterns, for example - master-slave, caste, and gender relations - have been adopted from the mores of their time. But in their view of the nature of reality, there is nothing in either modernity or postmodernity that rivals them.

  Huston Smith

  Reality, People, World

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• Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.

  Timothy Keller

  Hurt, Healing, Suffering And Death

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• You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

  Israel Zangwill

  Analogies, May, Want

  Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”

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• Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Order, Law

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.109

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• We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced by bad guys (particularly the ninja) one is wise to shoot for the head. That statement has got a whole bunch of journalists and commentators bleeding from the nose. One wonders why it should. Where else should you shoot a man if he is probably wearing an armored vest? If you decide to shoot you have made the big decision. Where you place your shot is merely a technical matter.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Hysteria, Guy

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• Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Peace, War

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• No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

  Alexander Pope

  Pain, Eye, Men

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