Top 61 Simple Wise Quotes
#1. This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
Saint John Chrysostom
#2. Be not proud of your intelligence. Be simple, wise, and humble.
Debasish Mridha
#3. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them
Paulo Coelho
#5. I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#6. It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Sam Levenson
#7. The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
Seneca The Younger
#10. Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life.
Abhijit Naskar
#11. Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Francis Bacon
#12. O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.
Mortimer Collins
#13. It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption
C. West Churchman
#14. This is pretty simple stuff. But the truth is, the reality of making money and wise decisions isn't very complicated. However, not many people understand the importance of a don't-worry attitude. If you do, you're one step ahead of the game.
Richard Carlson
#16. Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.
Michael Meade
#17. Some things in life are bigger than our needs and when our simple needs are transcended, the wise know to let go - from Opoponax Dreams
Genieve Dawkins
#18. Wise parents take simple actions early on so they can avoid having to take very painful ones later.
Jim Fay
#19. The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.
Fulton J. Sheen
#20. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Paulo Coelho
#21. My goal is simple. It is to take the human civilization with me on the path of sweet general harmony.
Abhijit Naskar
#22. The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.
Joshua L. Liebman
#23. There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.
Beatrice Warde
#25. Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.
Aristotle.
#27. Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.
Donna Lynn Hope
#29. If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. If you have answers to the "whys", it will direct you to the "hows". As simple as that!
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
John Chrysostom
#34. But the world had its layers. To the simple it offered simplicity. To the wise it offered profundity. And the only measure of courage worth acknowledging was found in accepting where one stood in that scheme - in hard, unwavering honesty, no matter how humbling.
Steven Erikson
#36. 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
#37. We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
Francis Of Assisi
#38. Simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.
Paulo Coelho
#42. Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.
Thomas Sydenham
#45. For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
Thomas Sydenham
#46. Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. "If you want your children to be intelligent," he said, "read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." He
Neil Gaiman
#48. And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
Alexander McCall Smith
#49. Compassionate the mountains rise
Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
That, having looked on life time out of mind,
Know that the simple gift of being kind
Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.
DuBose Heyward
#50. Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece, two thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild; I sailed with thee along the Peruvian coast last voyage - and, foolish as I am, taught thee, a green simple boy, how to splice a rope.
Herman Melville
#51. It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The simple cannot fathom how any man would dare presume to prevail, while the wise are amazed that any reasonable man would want the world, assuming he could get it.
Gore Vidal
#52. Relax," she said. "You will be wise. You're young. You can't have everything right away." When something simple and true takes you by surprise, it hits you in the stomach.
Daniel Handler
#53. For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.
Ellet J. Waggoner
#54. Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#55. A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what _they_ wear.' His point being that most designers, no matter what they throw onto the runway, favor simple, flattering pieces for themselves.
Tina Fey
#56. A wise person explains complex things in simple way. An intelligent person explains simple things in complex way.
Debasish Mridha
#57. We humans do thousand and one thing to impress others and show to the world that we are smart and wise but we tend to forget one very simple thing, there is small child in each one of us which is hungry for our own trust and inspirations.
Santosh Kalwar
#58. It won't be that simple though, will it?' She sounded wise beyond her years. 'Things are going to get worse before they get better, aren't they?
Richelle Mead
#59. I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.
Bryan Procter
#61. The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
Martin Luther
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
