Top 100 Quotes About Wise People
#1. Student: why do dumb people ignore wise people. Teacher: Because, the dumb people believe they are the wise people.
Jayce O'Neal
#2. 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
#3. Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.
Socrates
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. The best way to achieve great success is to learn from wise people. Use them extensively with love, gratitude, and humility.
Debasish Mridha
#8. 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
#9. Simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.
Paulo Coelho
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.
John Piper
#13. 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
#14. It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
#15. 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.
Anonymous
#16. Publicity is just a foolish act done by wise people confidently, to fool the world.
Pratik Akkawar
#17. Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
John Selden
#18. HOW CAME THE KING BY A POWER WHICH THE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO TRUST, AND ALWAYS OBLIGED TO CHECK? Such a power could not be the gift of a wise people, neither can any power, WHICH NEEDS CHECKING, be from God; yet the provision, which the constitution makes, supposes such a power to exist.
Thomas Paine
#19. When I was young, I admired old people.
Now that I'm old, I admire wise people.
When I was a youth, I admired strong people.
Now that I'm old, I admire meek people.
When I was an adult, I admired wealthy people.
Now that I'm old, I admire happy people.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
Leo Tolstoy
#21. There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and oppressive. All struggles happen between these two parties. If you are in the first group, your greatest reward will be dignity and victory!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.
Chungliang Al Huang
#24. One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear
and we just don't want to hear it.
Andy Stanley
#25. Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes
#26. Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#27. Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.
Cinda Williams Chima
#28. As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise.
Anonymous
#29. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
#30. My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
Chuck D
#31. There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.
Roger N. Walsh
#32. Don't talk, Snicket," Theodora said. "Fools talk while wise people listen, so listen up and I'll tell you how we will solve this case sensibly and properly.
Lemony Snicket
#34. Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
Aristotle.
#36. Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#37. Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.
Janette Oke
#38. Wise people make trails and paths, clever walk on them - stupid people can't decide.
Deyth Banger
#39. As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
M. Scott Peck
#40. I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
George Grosz
#41. I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.
Byron Katie
#42. I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.
Gregory David Roberts
#43. Wise people are only wise because they have lived many lives before.
Leydi Morfa
#44. It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Madame Roland
#45. A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.
George Eliot
#46. Wise words are all well and good when they are spoken by wise people, but when egomaniacal assholes are tossing them around, they are just words.
Autumn Doughton
#47. There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.
Edward Hoagland
#48. Among all the wise people of the nations and among all their kingdoms, there is no one like You. Jeremiah 10:7
Beth Moore
#49. Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.
Roger N. Walsh
#50. The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of Helvetius and also Locke has recieved the most acclaim amongst his class. Thus Kant even now will find more followers than Fichte.
Novalis
#51. In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.
Charlie Munger
#52. Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
John Ortberg
#53. Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
#54. Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.
Lord Chesterfield
#55. The course of morality is subtle and even the most illustrious, wise people in this world fail to always understand it.
Kavita Kane
#56. Most wise people are fucked up. You don't gain wisdom from pleasant experiences, after all - you buy it with pain.
Dianne Sylvan
#57. Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
Jonathan Swift
#58. Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them.
Wilferd Peterson
#59. The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
Finley Peter Dunne
#60. Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.
Gautama Buddha
#61. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba
#62. By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
Menander
#63. To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.
Mason Cooley
#64. Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.
Chrysippus
#65. I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
Sophia Loren
#66. Wise people heed the voice of reason;
the wisest heed the voice of God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#67. Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none
Charlotte Bronte
#68. Your horrific time of trouble offered you truths about yourself, windows into your own soul, and maps to the terrain of your inner life. Wise people learn to gather this intelligence to help them conquer themselves and then to live in loftier ways.
Stephen Mansfield
#69. Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise
Shiv Khera
#70. Fools live life; intellectuals only think thoughts arising from borrowed knowledge.
That is why fools enjoy life while so called wise people are busy posting tweets about life.
Unfortunately, I am a wise man.
Saurabh Sharma
#71. Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.
Craig Groeschel
#72. Wise people are motivated by the quotes and by the books.
Deyth Banger
#73. Those who are slaves to passions, run down with the stream (of desires), as a spider runs down the web which he has made himself; when they have cut this, at last, wise people leave the world free from cares, leaving all affection behind.
Anonymous
#74. 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
#75. 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
#77. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead
#78. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.
Paul Theroux
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
Augustus William Hare
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
Roger Ascham
#90. Visionary', is what we call successful people who were wise enough to not listen when we called them delusional.
Steve Maraboli
#92. Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world
Munia Khan
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. People use you and what do you do? You use them too.. We all are mean!
Honeya
#97. 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
#99. Be good to people only if you like anal sex.
That's how kind people are.
Honeya
