Wise Quotations | Page 4

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

The truth is more important than the facts.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I'm so excited. I love Peeta so much. I think that over the course of the next couple of books, he has so many interesting places to go to, character-wise. I'm ready to dive full-force into it. When I saw the movie actually, it got me energized. 'Let's go get some cameras! Let's go shoot the second one right now!'

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.

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.

For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division; with law and order when it is subverted by anarchy; and always, I will try to sustain it by wise policies of economic progress so that a democracy means not just an empty liberty, but a full life for all.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.