Quotes about wise
wise spring selfish
A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives. Franklin D. Roosevelt
wise thinking land
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.
wise lying government
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
wise godly people
Choose wise and Godly people to advise you. George Foreman
wise real political
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along? Jon Meacham
wise giving silence
In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us. Jon Kabat-Zinn
wise thinking attention
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
wise kindness heart
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
wise regret men
I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today is all that we will ever have in this life. If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. The wise man seeks God in the now and brings both his regrets and fears before Him. The freedom that we are offered is truly amazing: to live, today, free from even our own fallen desires. This is where I want to be. Jon Foreman
wise song sweet
Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man. Jon Anderson
wise writing guarantees
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written. Jojo Moyes
wise block said
Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up. Johnny Vegas
wise silly stupidity
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. Ludwig Wittgenstein
wise dream character
How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other. Luanne Rice
wise hope promise
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises. Luc de Clapiers
wise office generosity
It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.
wise time ignorance
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. Lord Chesterfield
wise men thinking
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. John Churton Collins
wise new-york ocean
You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other? O. Henry
wise powerful mean
By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons. Norman Vincent Peale
wise interesting insightful
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
wise tired ducks
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
wise art imagination
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
wise lying paris
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles. Emile Zola
wise men novelty
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. Emile M. Cioran
wise what-matters care
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow. Epictetus
wise extraordinary-person wish
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
wise trying seems
Do not try to seem wise to others.
wise men self
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found. Epicurus
wise men honor
The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.
wise men reason
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
wise men doe
The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
wise wisdom men
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.