True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
