Wise Women Quotes

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.

Talk without effort is nothing.

[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.

To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

Financial security is a constant in my life. I allow my income to constantly expand, no matter what the newspapers and economists say. I move beyond my present income, and I go beyond the economic forecasts. I do not listen to people out there telling me how far I can go or what I can do.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.