wise actions Quotes

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

Freedom is always wise.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

Nothing wrong with appearing to be a fool, if what you are doing is intelligent.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.