Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.
Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!
Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.
Beware of a man of one book.
We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said. " Love is the only rational act.
What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love.
A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
Politics is more difficult than physics.
What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist. . . I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own. . . I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.
As you begin to feel this enormous shift of consciousness, called multisensory perception, emerging in your awareness, you begin to reorient yourself. It's a reorientation that occurs toward yourself as more than a mind and a body; it's a reorientation that occurs toward others; toward your life as meaningful, rather than predetermined. It's a reorientation that occurs toward the universe as alive, wise and compassionate, instead of inert (which means dead) and random.
It is wise to remember that too much success in the stock market is in itself an excellent warning.