Best soul & wise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.”

Should May Long Soul Enough Order Wise Demand Advancement Provision Unfolding

Author:Ernest Holmes

“For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.”

Men Soul Problem Reality Wish Wise Magic Conform Cardinals Applied Science

Book:Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Source: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

“But there is no sole person for another's heart. Souls cannot be broken and then completed by another. That's not healthy, nor wise. There are infinite possibilities as there are infinite people and some matches are better than others...Just don't say that you'll die without the other one or that you'll never love again or that you're not whole-That's the stuff of Romeo and Juliet, hasty nonsense, and you know how well that turned out...Just don't be desperate about it. That's where souls go wrong, when they think they don't have choices. The heart must make choices.”

“Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.”

Stills Soul Hard Wisdom Courses Causes Wise Pride Holy Everyday Tolerance Eras Remarkable Cash Currency Smooth Everyday Life Civility

Book:Before the Sabbath

Source: Before the Sabbath

“Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.”

May Persons Soul Self Beautiful Rich Wise Bears Harmony Endure Possession Riches My Soul Grants Restraint Inner Self Self Restraint

Author:Plato

“Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.”

Soul Eye Perfect History Wise Historian Gifted

Book:Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations

Source: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations

“The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!”

Ifs Stills Soul Beautiful Strong Wise Hero Saint Seeds Godlike Bards

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.”

“O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.”

World Believe Heart Art Soul Eye Found Vision Wise Sky Inward Invincible Columbus

Book:The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition

Source: The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition

“O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.”

Giving Stills Soul Whole Body Chance Grace Wise Broken Lovely Gratefulness

Author:Sara Teasdale

“If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.”

Ifs Soul Evil Compassion Virtue Wise Creatures Noble Acquire Friendly Evil Thoughts

Author:Gautama Buddha

“In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise.' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever.”

Ifs Men Children Has Beens Soul Winning Forever Wise Example Flow Streams Godly Godly Life

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.”

Soul Wise Friends Kings Bottom Cups Deepest Thoughts

Book:Horace: Of the Art of Poetry: A Poem

Source: Horace: Of the Art of Poetry: A Poem

“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.”

Men Soul Wise Greatness Fool Rage Torment Fetters Gaudy

Author:Thomas Otway

“Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.”

Men May Soul Past Memories Clear Wise Modern Remembrance Oblivion Memorial Iliad

Book:Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations

Source: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations

“Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.”

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.”

Soul Body Perfect Study Wise Poet Pure Shapes All Things Intense Good Wise

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

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