Wise Thinking Quotes

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.