Quotes of: Wise-person Keyword

Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.

Post Office

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

The Wise Man's Fear

I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I summoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.

The Wise Man's Fear

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

The Wise Man's Fear

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

The Wise Man's Fear

We are not wise; we are wise to seek divine wisdom.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

Saskya Pandita

Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of.

Ludacris

De wijze heeft geen onwrikbare beginselen. Hij past zich aan anderen aan. (Free translation into English: The wise man has no firm principles. He adapts to others.)

Lao Tzu

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

Ramakrishna

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.

Will Allison

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Hesiod

I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace!

Israelmore Ayivor

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

James Stephens

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'

Timothy Ferriss

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise----as priests, prophets or philosophers are wise. Specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Allan Bloom

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every wise woman builds her house: but the fool plucks it down with her hands. Proverbs 14.-1

Biblical

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opp...

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