Best Wise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

“..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.”

“Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.”

Dies Education Wise Rapper Ghetto Batteries

Author:Big Pun

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise.”

Has Beens Hours Wise Blessing Praise Blessed Remembrance

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.”

Men God Prayer Wise Meditation Divine Ordinary Enthusiasm God Love Being Wise Ordinary Man Meditation And Prayer

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.”

People World Years Hard Age Race Rich Saws Wise Middle Kings Activity Jew Wander France Fifty Nevertheless Rude Middle Ages Owing Obstinacy Personification Greediness

Author:George Sand

“I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.”

Ifs Giving Artist Song Worry Records Wise Produce Mines Perspective Easier Starting Productions Listeners New Perspective

Author:Greg Laswell

“I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.”

Enough Problem Sound Wise Tasks Notion Leaving Busy Attractive Lazy Lap Delegates Delegation

Author:John Ortberg

“I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.”

Feels Years Kind Might Three Evil Speak Wise Concepts Fascinated Fourth Monkeys Collecting Depiction

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.”

Made Play School Mother Three Evil Father Speak Wise Gold Clubs Charm Grandmother Fascinated Monkeys My Grandmother Lap

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.”

Way Would Be Left Grows Behinds Wise Trouble Football Faster Stopping Left Behind

Author:Wayne Rooney

“Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.”

Wise Tree Describing

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.”

Doe Faces Wise Risk Rewards Average Batting

Author:John Slattery

“I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.”

People Would Be Lines Careers Wise Smart Yoga My Friends Thrive Hanging Out Sanity Personal Life Being Smart

Author:Courtney Thorne Smith

“I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.”

People Leadership Wise Building Insightful Vicinity Mistreat

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.”

Ifs May Wisdom Wise Buddhism Love Life Very Deep Transient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.”

Mean Stills Wisdom Eye Faces Wise Buddhism Being Wise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.”

Way Kind Children Self Wisdom Interest Consciousness Wise Havens Buddhism Innocence Self Consciousness Vested Interests

Author:Frederick Lenz

“True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.”

Wisdom Universe Wise Buddhism Gains Our Relationship True Wisdom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a mirror of infinity. That is wisdom.”

Ifs Wisdom Universe Wise Buddhism Approach Mirrors Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.”

Men Wisdom Walks Wise Buddhism Loser

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.”

Mind Hard States Wise Buddhism Balance Stuck State Of Mind Being Wise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.”

Life Inspirational Mind Wisdom Wise Positive Eternal Clever Slits

Author:Rupert Spira

“Hidden paths can't be walked without moving obstacles.”

Life Inspirational Wisdom Moving Path Wise Positive Obstacles Clever

Author:Anthony D. Williams

“Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.”

People Play Would Be Motivation Chance Wise Special Willing Summer Realistic Olympics Something Special Hometown

Author:Joe Sakic

“It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.”

Trying Sometimes Wisdom Wise Clever

Author:William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

“The aim of all spiritual practice is love.”

Wisdom Spiritual Practice Wise Aim Clever Spiritual Practice

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.”

Needs Moments Wisdom Wise Source Draws Calm Stores Clever Reservoirs

Book:Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914

Source: Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914

“Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.”

Mean Wisdom Water Wise Ocean Clever Tides

Author:Seth Godin

“All true success flows out of giving something to someone.”

Giving Wisdom Wise Flow Clever True Success

Author:Mike Hernacki

“True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.”

Doe Wisdom Form Wise Clever Visible True Success

Book:The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success

Source: The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success

“You are what you seek.”

Wisdom Wise Clever

Book:Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You

Source: Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You

“Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.”

Wisdom Wise Wings Clever Recalls

Author:Horace

“The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.”

Wisdom Speak Wise Clever Matched

Author:Charles E. McKenzie

“There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.”

Wisdom Past Wise Dying Goes On Clever

Author:Rajneesh

“Blessed if you do... Blessed if you don't... Blessed no matter what!”

Ifs Matter Wisdom Wise No Matter What Blessed Clever

Author:Doreen Virtue

“Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.”

Wisdom Light Lying Wise Shadow Clever

Author:Anthony D. Williams

“Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.”

Inspirational Real Life Is Difficult Wise Buddhism Complexes Heavy Real Life Get Real

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of power. Without wisdom, a powerful person does not become more powerful. Their power will turn back on them and eventually destroy them. So those who are truly wise become most powerful.”

Persons Doe Turns Powerful Wise Buddhism Yoga Most Powerful Powerful Person

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.”

Light Wise Meditation Buddhism Planes Dimensions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.”

Believe Long Real Reality Lasts Form Mistake Wise Terrible Shapes This Life Hinduism Mistaken Krishna Ephemeral Realness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise!”

Nature Environment Wise Crazy Summer Spring Winter Autumn Cheerful Natural Environment

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."”

Children Said Christian Jesus Parent Secret Wise Missing Like You Our Children Christian Inspirational Your Children Babe Prudent

Author:Vance Havner

“Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth; emphasizing the head more than the heart; making size more important than sort; stressing the positive to the neglect of the negative; putting happiness above holiness; majoring on this world instead of the next.”

World Heart Important Today Christian Next Successful Wise This World Negative Stress Size Christian Inspirational Tolerance Ignorant Satan Holiness Devices Neglect

Author:Vance Havner

“Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.”

Knows Men Enough Wise Patience Insecure Pacifist

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.”

Men Way Giving Reason Helping Order Pleasure Wise Trouble Everyday

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!”

Men Book Shows Water Dark Compassion Path Wise Safe Conscience Good Book Lighthouse Water Of Life Dark Water

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.”

Ifs Way Seems Winning Wise Imagine Genius Not Sure Wizards Funny But True Gallant Swordsman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!”

Voice Dark Wise Bird Forests Mysterious Good Writers

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

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