Top 100 Quotes About Wise Person
#1. But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.
Camron Wright
#2. A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#3. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.
Anonymous
#5. I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.
Rob McClure
#6. A wise person will be slow to show their anger ...
But very quick and diligent to show love and kindness to all.
Timothy Pina
#7. The practice of thrift is not outdated.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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. The seeds of good deeds become a tree of life; a wise person wins friends. - Proverbs 11:30
Gary Chapman
#13. The foolish experience much,
but learn little.
The wise experience little,
but learn much.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. But in Marriage do thou be wise; prefer the Person before Money; Vertue before Beauty, the Mind before the Body: Then thou hast a Wife, a Friend, a Companion, a Second Self; one that bears an equal Share with thee in all thy Toyls and Troubles.
Various
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. You can mock a wise person,
but you'll remember him when you're in trouble.
If you mock God, remember,
you'll need Him when you're in trouble.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.
Debasish Mridha
#21. A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.
Zelig Pliskin
#22. 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
#23. The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift
#24. Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.
Anne Holm
#25. Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?
Debasish Mridha
#26. 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
#27. A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
Vera Nazarian
#28. 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
#29. A foolish man enjoys the company of prostitutes;
a wise man enjoys the company of his wife.
The mother of a prudent son will rejoice;
the father of a mindless son will groan.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#30. A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.
Jonathan Maberry
#31. The wise are in the light,
moving forward;
the foolish are in the dark,
moving backwards.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. Unveil a person's thoughts,
and you are shrewd.
Unveil a person's desires,
and you are wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#34. 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
#35. Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.
Earl Nightingale
#36. When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
John Sergeant Wise
#37. 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
#38. The wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor? ... You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.
Harry Blamires
#40. 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
#41. It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise ... -Bob Slocum
Joseph Heller
#42. It's time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
Epictetus
#43. A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
Arthur Ashe
#44. A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Never does a person feel so wise, so mature and so adult as when she is not.
Pia Juul
#46. Nature does not play favourites, it regards its creations without sentimentality. Therefore the wise person also acts in this way.
Lao-Tzu
#47. While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#48. The enlightened worry less than others,
quarrel less than others,
fight less than others,
transgress less than others;
care more than others,
give more than others,
and love more than others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#49. It takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#50. 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
#51. Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.
Greg Wise
#52. 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
#53. Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person
accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. When Steve Wise told me that he intended to argue in court before a judge that an animal could be a "legal person," it seemed like a novel, possibly far-fetched idea, but the more I thought about it, the more I became intrigued.
Chris Hegedus
#57. 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
#58. Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
Alan Kay
#60. It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.
Doug Larson
#61. Every wise person I meet I hope to be, for every fool I know is in agony.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#62. Though all one's life a fool associates with a wise person,one no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavor of the soup.
Gautama Buddha
#63. 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
#64. To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self.
By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.
Adi Shankara
#65. 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
#66. A wise person makes one error,
and learns ten lessons.
He makes two errors,
and learns twenty lessons.
He makes three errors,
and learns thirty lessons.
He makes few errors,
and learns countless lessons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#67. 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
#68. A wise person explains complex things in simple way. An intelligent person explains simple things in complex way.
Debasish Mridha
#69. You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
Terence
#70. We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.
Prem Rawat
#71. I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
Cornel West
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. If you debate the wise,
no matter how poor,
they will hearken to wisdom.
If you debate the foolish,
no matter how rich,
they will mock wisdom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#75. I think you must be running away from something pretty enormous if you don't want to see a person more than once or twice. I think relationships don't get interesting for quite a while. When the initial heady rush fades, that's when it gets really exciting.
Greg Wise
#77. A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.
Michael Bassey
#78. 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
#79. Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
Confucius
#80. Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.
William Mapother
#81. The wise need the least advice,
but seek it the most.
The foolish need counsel the most,
but seek it the least.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#82. The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast [...]
Giovanni Boccaccio
#83. Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe
#84. 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
#85. I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
Maya Angelou
#86. The wise see in the dark;
the foolish are blind, even in light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#87. 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
#88. The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .
Baltasar Gracian
#89. The person who goes astray from God's wise guidance burdens himself with sorrows and frustrations. In fact, he ends up being a slave to his own desires.
Vern Sheridan Poythress
#90. 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
#91. A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.
Solomon
#92. A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#93. Our finger print represents our unique identity and individuality.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#94. Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.
Plato
#95. A wise person would make certain their words aren't so sharp.
Jonas Lee
#96. Is it wise to blow the whistle on a person's selfishness when selfishness itself is an important attribute for contentment?
L.D.R.
#97. 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
#99. A wise person can do more with one opportunity than a fool with a thousand.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#100. 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
