Quotes about wise
wise time age
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. Doris Day
wise war military
Most US presidents since World War II have led military actions without a declaration of war by Congress, though most, if not all, have properly consulted and sought support from Congress. That is the wise thing to do. Donald Rumsfeld
wise military subordination
The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained. Dwight D. Eisenhower
wise meaningful powerful
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. Corazon Aquino
wise men compassion
A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage. Dalai Lama
wise selfish teaching
Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they actually achieve ultimate happiness for themselves?' Yes. That's wise selfish,' he replied. 'Helping others not means we do this at our own expense. Not like this. Buddhas and bodhisattvas, these people very wise. All their lives they only want one thing: to achieve ultimate happiness. How to do this? By cultivating compassion, by cultivating altruism.
wise selfish lying
It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.
wise needs popularity
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise. Indira Gandhi
wise thinking light
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about Ingmar Bergman
wise new-experiences going-away
As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter. Jack Kornfield
wise spiritual real
If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love....
wise spiritual and-love
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
wise spiritual heart
The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom. Jack Canfield
wise prayer mean
God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion. J. I. Packer
wise may want
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things. Israel Zangwill
wise smart heart
Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart. Jack Ma
wise thinking world
I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her. J. Cole
wise children men
He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last. J. C. Ryle
wise mean challenges
I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new. Isabel Lucas
wise character men
In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies. Isaac Watts
wise lying lows
The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
wise divinity rising
To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
wise men color
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. Isaac Newton
wise philosophy ocean
. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on the seashore - to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) - the traditional account of the creation.
wise skills medicine
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.
wise humble men
Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows. Isabel Allende
wise kindness ravens
Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness. Hannah Kent
wise art mind
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise. Guy Pearce
wise people choices
Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one. Guy Kawasaki
wise smoking drug
I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack. Ginnifer Goodwin
wise love-you blow
Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. Gerry Rafferty
wise law people
The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people. Gregory Bateson
wise men use
Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.