I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the adoption.
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a wise policy that would benefit both Afghans and Americans.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
The UAWK is a mass-based political organization of our socialist agricultural workers which was founded and has developed under the wise guidance of the great leaders, and a reliable transmission belt and peripheral organization of the Party.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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.