Let's say 'Yes' to life and 'No' to death.
Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.
I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.
It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
Personality wise, we are all kindred spirits. I've said this before; if we [with Mike Mangini ] ever went to high school together we would have been friends. He is just one of us! We felt that immediate connect.
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.
The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.
Now' is the watchword of the wise.
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths. " While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that "myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations. " It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.
Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.