Wise Quotes - Page 31

• Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
  Against stupidity the very gods
  Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
  Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
  Wise foundress of the system of the world,
  Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,
  Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,
  Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,
  Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Daughter, Stars

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.435

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• My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Art, Flower

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• The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the past in Europe and other world areas, I think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Religious, Attitude, Thinking

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• Innate is a segment of the All-Wise; Educated is an offspring of innate, a servant for its lifetime only. Educated continues with and lasts as long as life exists; Innate is eternal, always was and always will be.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Long, Lasts, Lifetime

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• A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Want, Soil

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• A wise man once said that a person is known by
  the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the
  company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially
  at the strategic decision making level.

  Anuj

  Character, Men, People

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• Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
  Think each in each, immediately wise;
  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
  What this tumultuous body now denies;
  And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
  And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

  Rupert Brooke

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.114, The Oleander Press

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• I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

  Jesse Helms

  Republican, Young, Democrat

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• Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Men, Giving, Trying

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• One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Insanity

  Alejandro Jodorowsky (2010). “Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy”, p.35, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

  James Holman

  Cups, Bitter, Illness

  James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10

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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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• If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll want to join me here in the Wow, I Like No Need of Sympathy Club. Your membership fee is the same as your membership privileges: this book.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Book, Needs, Clubs

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• O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Hair, Civilization

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the end. I know much better methods of providing a minimum for everybody. But once you turn from laying down a general minimum for all industry to decreeing particular and different minimum for different industries, then, of course, you make the price mechanism inoperative, because it is no longer the price mechanism which will guide people between industries and trades.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Thinking, Law, People

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• That Justice is a blind goddess
  Is a thing to which we black are wise:
  Her bandage hides two festering sores
  That once perhaps were eyes.

  Langston Hughes

  Eye, Two, Justice

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.160, University of Missouri Press

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• When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Insightful, Bonus, Feels Right

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far.

  Robert Breault

  People, Judging, Remember

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• The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Light, Morality

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.43

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• Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Beer, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the desire to avoid change may carry us too far in this direction; it will undoubtedly be very inconvenient to the present generation of chemists to abandon familiar and cherished names, but nevertheless it may be a wise course to boldly face the difficulty, rather than inflict on coming generations a partially illogical and unsystematic nomenclature.

  Henry Edward Armstrong

  Science, Names, Doubt

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• Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

  Sophocles

  Thinker

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• We share a lot in common, attitude wise.

  Alex Riley

  Attitude, Wwe, Common

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• Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

  Russell Lynes

  Stupid, People, Would Be

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• It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Mind, Fancy

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.203, Northwestern University Press

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