Top 97 Person Is Wise Quotes
#1. The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish ... between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.
Marvin J. Ashton
#2. A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith
#3. They seek the edges, because it is the edges that ultimately lead us. A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.
Laurie Beth Jones
#4. By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.
Gautama Buddha
#5. A wise person is able to bring down a thousand armies with a single insight; with wisdom he successfully engages ten thousand armies with just one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. Heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.
Laozi
#7. The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.
Theodore Roosevelt
#8. A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.
Zelig Pliskin
#9. The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift
#10. A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
Vera Nazarian
#11. It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#12. I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is a beggar, or God in person, and whether he is ignorant or wise, they are all of equal right. No one has more right than any other, and nobody is more than any other.
Billy Meier
#13. A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Never does a person feel so wise, so mature and so adult as when she is not.
Pia Juul
#15. It takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#16. There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
#17. Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.
Greg Wise
#18. I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.
Philip Pullman
#19. Remember, a wise person moves through his unhappiness alone and whenever he is
happy he shares it with everyone. The fool does the opposite.
Bella Meraki
#20. Take advice from the ignorant as well as from the wise, since there is no single person who embodies perfection nor any craftsman who has reached the limits of excellence.
Ptahhotep
#21. You know, it's amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#22. Every wise person I meet I hope to be, for every fool I know is in agony.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person who has weathered storms rather than avoided them and you will find someone who is wise.
Edward T. Welch
#25. To be ignorant is to be in the dark;
to be wise is to be in the light.
An illiterate person is disabled intellectually;
an unenlightened person is handicapped spiritually.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#26. We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.
Prem Rawat
#27. There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
Rumi
#28. Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.
Gichin Funakoshi
#29. A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.
Michael Bassey
#30. What is a normal goal to a young person becomes a neurotic hindrance in old age. - CARL JUNG No wise person ever wanted to be younger. - NATIVE AMERICAN APHORISM
Richard Rohr
#31. Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
Confucius
#32. An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
Epictetus
#33. A fool is surrounded by blessings, but is chained by folly and thus cannot reach them. A wise person is surrounded by blessings, and has extra-long arms to reach for them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#34. Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.
Edgar Cayce
#35. A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#36. Is it wise to blow the whistle on a person's selfishness when selfishness itself is an important attribute for contentment?
L.D.R.
#37. This self-knowledge is the foundation for becoming the wise, compassionate, and peaceful person you have the capacity to become. So how do we do deeply know ourselves?
Cindy Wigglesworth
#38. The wise person knows it is fruitless to project hopes and fears on the future. This only leads to forming melodramatic representations in your mind and wasting time.
Epictetus
#39. Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.
Marianne Williamson
#40. One who does not believe in the self is an atheist. If you believe in yourself, then you are the most religious person on earth.
Abhijit Naskar
#41. By looking at a person's features, clothing, and speech, even Confucius would not be able to say what sort of a person he is. But by testing him in a position and seeing what he he does, even someone with so-so judgment would be able to know if he is wise or not.
Han Fei
#42. A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#44. The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Thomas Carlyle
#45. A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.
A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#46. A wise man once said that a person is known by
the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the
company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially
at the strategic decision making level.
Anuj
#47. The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.
Joseph Addison
#48. Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#49. A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered. 28 Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.
Anonymous
#50. I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.
Jim Crace
#51. My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
Keira Knightley
#52. A wise person is able to save a city;
a fool is able to destroy a nation.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. A wise person is on firm ground,
a fool is on thin ice,
and an evil person is already drowning.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#54. The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also.
Emily Post
#55. Once I believed that sooner or later I would come across a really wise person; today I couldn't even say what wisdom is.
Fausto Cercignani
#56. Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?
Robert Nozick
#57. The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked
'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?'
The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#58. A very wise person once told me marriage is hard, that you have to keep fighting for it everyday.
Liz Fenton
#59. A wise person is wise because he trusts his own being.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool.
Debasish Mridha
#61. The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air.
Tim Wise
#62. The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
Confucius
#63. If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it
Ralph Marston
#64. The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.
Chogyam Trungpa
#65. No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.
Karl Hess
#66. An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight ... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
#67. A wise person once wrote, "Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die." But the only one dying is ourselves.
Debbie Ford
#68. A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.
Gautama Buddha
#69. Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
Leo Buscaglia
#70. Beware, beware of those who care,' as some wise person said. Not that I'm suggesting there is anything wrong with caring. But as Granny Maud used to say, 'Fine words butter no parsnips,' and she might have added, 'Caring should be felt and not heard.
Salley Vickers
#71. Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#72. A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.
Molefi Kete Asante
#73. The tongue is a venomous serpent, which is why the wise cage it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.
Epictetus
#75. Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
Lucian
#76. Failure's sleeve cannot help but brush against the back of gratified desires and insatiability is inevitably left to gaze with smoldering eyes into the wise, peaceful eyes of a person who finds satiation within himself.
Robert Walser
#77. 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
#78. You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#79. God's love is not cautious, not wise, not sensible, and not remotely conservative. In fact, loving another person the way God loves them is the greatest adventure we can have.
Susan May Warren
#80. Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of power. Without wisdom, a powerful person does not become more powerful. Their power will turn back on them and eventually destroy them. So those who are truly wise become most powerful.
Frederick Lenz
#81. What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of the way they go about it in the smallest details, is what gets transmitted.
David Brooks
#82. The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#83. Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
Maya Angelou
#84. Knowledge and courage contribute in turn to greatness. Since they are immortal, they immortalize. You are as much as you know, and a wise person can do anything. A person without knowledge is a world of darkness. Judgement and strength, eyes and hands; without courage, wisdom is sterile.
Baltasar Gracian
#85. A wise man learns from his mistakes;
a fool won't even learn from his fatal ones.
There is no such thing as an intentional mistake,
but no man is a fool accidentally.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#86. A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.
Paulo Coelho
#87. Resentment is the act of stabbing yourself repeatedly in the heart with a knife, hoping the other person dies.
Stacey Turis
#88. A fool thinks he is always right, a wise person always doubts himself.
Debasish Mridha
#89. A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.
Marvin J. Ashton
#90. A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand.
Faith Brashear
#91. Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.
Gautama Buddha
#92. There is no gap between the ignorant and the wise. A foolish person is a wise person; a wise person is a foolish person.
Shunryu Suzuki
#93. 5-6 blogs is too many for a fool to have; one is enough for a wise person
Tasha Turner
#94. What is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...
John Geddes
#95. Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.
Anne Frank
#96. A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.
Erwin McManus
#97. Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
