Top 33 Deep, Inspirational Quotes About "Wise" (2022)

"It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?"

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Book #Should #Wise

"I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Giving #Easy #Wise

"Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise."

--- A. L. Rowse

#Wise #Walking #Sports

"I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Ifs #Years #Young

"If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past."

--- A. R. Bernard

#Ifs #Mind #Vision

"The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world."

--- A.C. Grayling

#World #Form #Wise

"First, then, a woman will, or won't, - depend on't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice."

--- Aaron Hill

#Ifs #Firsts #Ends

"Honestly I think it was gradual from the first time I came. It's been a gradual thing as far as audience and response wise. I feel like I was conditioned for this type of impact."

--- Ab-Soul

#Thinking #Feels #Audience

"Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous."

--- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Miscellaneous #Inspirational #Wise

"Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Strong #Wise #Light

"In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Wise #Sacred #Conflict

"What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind."

--- Abigail Adams

#Children #Parent #Care

"Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place."

--- Abolqasem Ferdowsi

#Knows #Should #Men

"Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize!"

--- Abraham Cowley

#Men #World #Wise

"Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me."

--- Abraham Cowley

#Book #May #Garden

"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on."

--- Abraham Cowley

#Running #Should #Doe

"Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Self #Criticism #Wise

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Grandparent #Grandmas And Moms #Tall

"Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Posterity #White Man #Pursuit Of Happiness

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Patience #Overcoming Adversity #Eastern

"May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Hands #Humanity #May

"Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Lawyer #Law #Men

"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Humans #Study #He Man

"He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#People #Knows #Men

"We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Ifs #May #Delay

"I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Men #Tongue #Wise

"In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#He Man #Men #Weak

"Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Individual #Wise #Politics

"We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Made #May #World

"And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Giving #Way #Wells

"I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Labor #Individual #Fruit

"I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. ... I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me... These are not, however, the days of miracles ... I must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Ifs #Facts #Study

"We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise."

--- Abraham Maslow

#Ifs #Humans #Needs

Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Wise"