Consideration Quote by Izaak Walton

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

— Izaak Walton

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

— Confucius

Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere,…

— Tom Robbins

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers…

— Herman Melville

Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure;…

— John Ruskin

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are…

— Confucius

As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which…

— Swami Vivekananda

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Such apparently illogical actions are almost never inspired by a single motive. They spring from an unknown number of threads, perhaps thousands of them,…

— Miklós Bánffy

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

— Owen Feltham

To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes