Wise Living Quotes

Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

Everyday is a new life to a wise man.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Hee that lives well is learned enough.

For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character

I think people are better for having learned, even if they aren't happier.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

He that lives well sees a farre off.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.