wise perspective Quotes

Everyday is a new life to a wise man.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

The wise man is astonished by anything.

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.