Top 100 Quotes About Wise People
#1. The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.
Brian Houston
#2. Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.
Eckhart Tolle
#4. Student: why do dumb people ignore wise people. Teacher: Because, the dumb people believe they are the wise people.
Jayce O'Neal
#5. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead
#6. No wonder the Prophet Muhammad said, "In this world take pity on three kinds of people. The rich man who has lost his fortune, the well-respected man who has lost his respectability, and the wise man who is surrounded by ignorants.
Elif Shafak
#8. She'll tell you this house is haunted, but I believe the truth of the matter is that people get haunted. Not places.' - Will Laughlin
Brandy Heineman
#9. When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance ... that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#10. True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.
George Aiken
#11. You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.
Paul Theroux
#12. The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
Dennis Prager
#13. It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people - confused and excited - hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate.
Lloyd C. Douglas
#14. People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
Augustus William Hare
#15. My parents inspire me every day. They are both incredible people that I love and look up to every day. Industry wise, I love what Justin Timberlake has done with his career. He's truly an idol to me, not only as a performer, but as a person as well.
Max Schneider
#16. This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who knows not.
And his footsteps on the road click tic-tac, tic-tac
Cristiane Serruya
#17. To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
Roger Ascham
#18. Visionary', is what we call successful people who were wise enough to not listen when we called them delusional.
Steve Maraboli
#20. Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world
Munia Khan
#21. Stupidy is easy, everyone can learn it... You just say to stupid stuff and you are the big Job,... but try to be a wise that's what's hard and most people just try to destroy the wise people why??
Because they are too stupid to realease it!
Deyth Banger
#22. It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. (Ender's Game, page 111)
Orson Scott Card
#23. When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete ... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws, everything is sterile and dead.
Louis Antoine De Saint-Just
#24. Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.
Sigurd F. Olson
#25. People use you and what do you do? You use them too.. We all are mean!
Honeya
#26. Insofar as we have freedoms, it's not because some great wise Founding Fathers granted them to us. It's because people like us insisted on exercising those freedoms - by doing exactly what we're doing here - before anyone was willing to acknowledge that they had them.
David Graeber
#27. Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.
Socrates
#29. Be good to people only if you like anal sex.
That's how kind people are.
Honeya
#30. 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
#32. Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
Gregory Maguire
#33. A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes ... The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.
Sivananda
#34. Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment, with an excellent toilet, and a well-furnished dogma.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#35. Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde
#36. The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#37. A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
Bernie Siegel
#38. Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write this to share simple truths I've learned from some very wise people.
Rick Van Ness
#39. Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
Aristotle.
#40. For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.
Tim Wise
#42. It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people ... It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.
Carol S. Dweck
#44. 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
#45. The difference between a wise man and a fool is a wise man learns his lessons from other people's mistakes and a fool only learns from his own.
Duane "Dog" Chapman
#46. These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
Ajahn Chah
#47. The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
Henry Miller
#48. Most of the people share quotes and wordings not because they follow them or absorb for life but they knows by share it i can be notice as a wise person.
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#49. Since time immemorial wise people have been saying that all comparisons are odious. When we compare, we set up a winner-loser dynamic. If my crisis is greater than yours, then yours is belittled and insignificant. I say that's nonsense. Each crisis has its own power, its own unique reality.
Tavis Smiley
#50. People say that scars are the sign of victory; the winning marks against what broke them. But how about the wound that never heals? What would that make you? A winner, a loser, a survivor?
E. Mellyberry
#52. Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality
Tony Robbins
#53. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
P. J. O'Rourke
#54. God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?
Samuel Hopkins
#56. The wise do not buy into other people's perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person's public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul's worth.
Shannon L. Alder
#57. The best way to achieve great success is to learn from wise people. Use them extensively with love, gratitude, and humility.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which puzzles many wise people. Now it is plain why there are so many of us ... But the public fun of being an author is rather apt to wear thin ...
J. E. Buckrose
#59. People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
Aristotle.
#60. Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...
John Geddes
#61. To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle.
#62. Simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.
Paulo Coelho
#64. It behooved wise people to play the part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to fasten the doors well.
Victor Hugo
#65. You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
Louisa May Alcott
#66. Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
David Hume
#67. It seems to me that smart people seem to know things and wise people know how to use what they know. Smart is a big help to a man; wise is a big help to lots of men.
Dan Groat
#68. Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise
E. E. Cummings
#69. In a group of intelligent men people expect only one to be wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#70. 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
#71. I have decided on my destiny; accepted by calling as writing for God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. We all have sinned so far in our lives and might continue too but still we all love talking about others sins, Elaborating, exaggerating, laughing, commenting, cursing ... And we all enjoy it hahaha
Honeya
#73. Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.
John Piper
#74. It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
Martin Luther
#75. Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends.
Abhijit Naskar
#76. A wise man will cultivate a servant's spirit, for that particular attribute attracts people like no other. As I humbly serve others, their wisdom will be freely shared with me. Often, the person who develops a servant's spirit becomes wealthy beyond measure.
Andy Andrews
#77. Once you become very powerful and advanced, you must be willing to go back to school and start over, and go to a wise person who will show you the way. Very few people are willing to do that.
Frederick Lenz
#78. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Seneca.
#79. As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads."
Al Yankovic
#80. Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.
Mari Ruti
#81. Are you always this wise, Ruth?"
"Only when it comes to other people's lives.
Paula McLain
#82. Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.
Guy Kawasaki
#83. 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
Neil Gaiman
#84. A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
Martin Luther
#85. One has to ask what is the goal of life? What is the goal of life? My interpretation of it for myself, a very wise teacher once taught me this, is to meet the needs of the people, places and the times around you and offering those services to God.
Suze Orman
#86. Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.
C.P. Cavafy
#87. We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.
Ken Burns
#88. Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.
Peter Behrens
#89. Clever, smart and wise people have one in common that they read quotes, they are curious for knowledge and they have big libraries!
Deyth Banger
#90. I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.
John Sergeant Wise
#91. I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
Louisa May Alcott
#93. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
Leon Kass
#94. You are incredibly wise."
He laughed. "Only when it comes to other people. It's easy to see how to fix their lives. It's much harder to see the cracks in your own house.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#95. We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack balance. They take it all too seriously.
Frederick Lenz
#96. Make peace with people, make peace with animals, make peace with trees!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. People were endlessly good, wise, and gentle in the midst of all the hurry, the conferences, the dinner invitations, the smell of disinfectant, the meeting reminders.
Riikka Pulkkinen
#98. It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
#99. If you're running to be president of the United States, you can't just tell people you're going to make America great again. I think you need to begin to explain exactly how you're going to do it policy-wise. We're not going to win a general election with a candidate that refuses to detail policy.
Marco Rubio
#100. Wise words come from the lips of people with understanding, but those lacking sense will be beaten with a rod. 14 Wise people treasure knowledge, but the babbling of a fool invites disaster.
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