The best counsel for us to give young people is that they can arrive back to Heavenly Father only as they are guided and corrected by the Spirit of God. So if we are wise, we will encourage, praise, and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
