Top 100 The Wise Heart Quotes
#1. Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#3. It's just hard now because ... you're jealous. But your heart is so generous and warm, it will melt the bad feelings away. I am 100 percent positive that my mom is the wisest mother in the world.
Jane O'Connor
#4. They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge? ... know it is the understanding graven in the heart that makes men wise.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#5. A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle ...
Vladimir Nabokov
#6. Wisemen's minds and hearts live together under the same roof of wisdom
Munia Khan
#7. What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman's heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.
Augustus William Hare
#9. Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
William Golding
#10. Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
Hans F. Sennholz
#12. Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.
Morihei Ueshiba
#13. Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.
Sharon Salzberg
#14. Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.
Hesiod
#15. Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.
Benjamin Harrison
#16. To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart.
Donita K. Paul
#17. One day, you will see that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong.
Ally Carter
#18. Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#19. A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.
Tibullus
#21. Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh ... Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#22. Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.
Anne Lamott
#23. Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
Laozi
#24. Seek God, but you will not find Him with your eyes;
you will find Him with your heart. Listen to the wise, but you will not hear them with your ears;
you will hear them with your heart.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Anonymous
#26. Light is formless, but pierces the eyes.
Wisdom is formless, but pierces the mind.
Faith is formless, but pierces the heart.
Love is formless, but pierces the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin
#28. If that is wisdom, then I will never be wise. I do not want a life that has no place for you in it. You will come back with me and take the place that is yours in my heart. No obligations to the past stand in the way. We will marry.
Addis de Valence
Madeline Hunter
#29. You can threaten a village wise woman with death and torture and she may say "jesus is lord" to survive, but you can never know what's really in her heart ... that, I feel, is how the goddess survived centuries of history and hatred.
Dianne Sylvan
#30. The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.
Anonymous
#31. Literature is the voice of the human heart.
Graham Swift
#32. L am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#34. When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
Oscar Wilde
#35. The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
Luther Standing Bear
#36. Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.
Marcus Aurelius
#37. Big heart,
wide as a watermelon,
but wise as birth,
there is so much abundance
in the people I have ...
Anne Sexton
#38. The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
Norman Lear
#40. We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
A.W. Tozer
#41. Resentment is the act of stabbing yourself repeatedly in the heart with a knife, hoping the other person dies.
Stacey Turis
#42. Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus. Who could ask for more?
Lynn Freed
#43. When my mother died, I thought I'd drown in sorrow. But my grandmother said something very wise, and I've always held it close to my heart. She said that not even the sea is infinite, and neither is grief.
T. Frohock
#45. I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.
Anna Laetitia Waring
#46. As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.
Gautama Buddha
#47. Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words
To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart;
Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
John Milton
#49. Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice
you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.
Michael Jackson
#52. Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#54. A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.
Solomon
#55. Is this blasphemy, my lord?"
"I think not. Those who crafted me, be they gods or demons, crafted this mind that shapes my resistance to their schemes. Surely they were wise enough, at the wheel where I was thrown, to anticipate future resistance in the heart they were abuilding.
Tom Robbins
#56. It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale
#57. Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
Elbert Hubbard
#58. Of happiness the chiefest part
IS a wise heart
Sophocles
#59. As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.
C.S. Lewis
#61. The kitchen of the Big House was always one of my favorite places. Airy and sunny. No modern cabinets or anything like that. Just a room full of windows, set into wise, worn walls.
Suzanne Palmieri
#62. He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
Tad Williams
#64. If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.
Hugh B. Brown
#65. Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
Tara Brach
#66. Ah, the bliss of Mahotsava!
What joy it brings to every heart!
What a rare and precious chance
To share all knowledge with the wise,
And bless and love all peoples of the Earth!"
- Book of Secrets I, 1
Robert Delgado
#68. Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.
Laozi
#69. The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#70. Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
Bhartrhari
#71. To be engaged to marry some one with whom you are not in love is an inevitable step in a world where the existence of passion is only a traveler's story brought from the heart of deep forests and told so rarely that wise people doubt whether the story can be true.
Virginia Woolf
#72. I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.
Kelly Ripa
#73. In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.
Abhijit Naskar
#74. It is the little act of kindness that touches our heart and blossom our life with gladness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. God, help me. Help me to be wise and full of courage and sound judgment. Harden my heart to the sights that I must see so soon again, grant me only the power to think clearly, boldly, resolutely, no matter how unnerving the peril. Let me not fail them.
Anton Myrer
#79. Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend
Michelangelo
#80. Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.
Francis Quarles
#81. Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up.
Nikki Rowe
#82. Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.
Arthur W. Pink
#83. The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life
In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things,
To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold.
Oh wise men, riddle me this: What if the dream come true?
Padraig Pearse
#84. She swore this time around she'd listen to her instincts, and right now they told her to be careful. She'd had to fight hard for everything she had, and risking everything for a little fun didn't seem wise.
Rachel Spangler
#85. I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.
Ken Livingstone
#86. The wise and decent priest Jos de Vries
makes me smile by heart and soul.
Petra Hermans
November 4, 2016
Petra Hermans
#87. Abe: Wise hermit cast adrift on asteroid for thousands of years; has developed odd code languages for everyday actions; lonely but not bitter; his heart is cryogenically frozen, and he must search the universe pursuing the Thawer.
Douglas Coupland
#89. All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.
George MacDonald
#90. No man goes out upon a novel expedition without misgivings.
The Secret Places of The Heart (Kindle Loc 245)
H.G.Wells
#91. Live from the wise voice in your heart, and each day will blossom
Laurel Burch
#92. Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.
Euripides
#93. Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart
Munia Khan
#94. Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise
Beth Moore
#95. The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals.
Thomas Paine
#96. The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge" -Proverbs 18:15 (KJV)
Jillian Hall
#97. We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.
Philip K. Dick
#98. It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#99. A kind 'no' from the heart is better than a deceitful 'yes' from the tongue.
Matshona Dhliwayo
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