Wise Person Quotes

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

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

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. ~ Henri Arnold Seyrig

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

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. ~ Arthur Ashe

When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them. ~ Kostya Tszyu

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. ~ Confucius

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made. ~ Frank Herbert

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it. ~ Terence

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. ~ Thomas Carlyle

A wise person will be slow to show their anger ...
But very quick and diligent to show love and kindness to all. ~ Timothy Pina

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

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

The news did not trouble her particularly; all news was bad, like wage demands, strikes, or war, and the wise person paid no attention to it. What was important was that it was a bright, sunny day; her first narcissi were in bloom, and the daffodils behind them were already showing flower buds. ~ Nevil Shute

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

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

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

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

You cannot be both in love and a wise person. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. ~ Robert Southey

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

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

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

It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk. ~ Doug Larson

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

A fool thinks he is always right, a wise person always doubts himself. ~ Debasish Mridha

A wise person has more power over his enemies than they have over themselves. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A wise person can do more with one opportunity than a fool with a thousand. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger. ~ Debasish Mridha

It is the duty of every wise person to seek out people with potential and freely guide them on the path of wisdom. By doing so, the wise leaders of the future are born, and the world will have a chance to mend itself. ~ Charbel Tadros

Wisdom: People attain wisdom in large part by remembering what happened in the past. No generation can attain wisdom without studying and remembering the past. None of those who believed in the 1960's aphorism, 'Never trust anyone over thirty,' became a wise person. Without wisdom, all the good intentions in the world amount to nothing. Intending to do good without having wisdom is like intending to fly an airplane with no knowledge of airplanes or the laws of aerodynamics. Good intentions without wisdom lead to either nothing or to actual evil. ~ Dennis Prager

A wise person makes use of one opportunity where as a fool misses a thousand. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

These things are natural. One has to accept them and by and by transcend them. If you feel too much anger, move into your room, beat the pillow, cry, weep, scream, but do it alone. Why show your ugly face to the other? What is the point? Just cathart.

A wise person moves through his unhappiness alone, and whenever he is happy, comes and shares it with people. A fool shares his unhappiness with people, and when he is happy he sits alone. ~ Osho

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

The seeds of good deeds become a tree of life; a wise person wins friends. - Proverbs 11:30 ~ Gary Chapman

Nature does not play favourites, it regards its creations without sentimentality. Therefore the wise person also acts in this way. ~ Lao-Tzu

Human evolution is essentially the progression of information gathering (knowledge) and consciousness, or the advancement in wisdom. A wise person is willing to learn at all stages of life by using their cognitive abilities open-mindedly to examine contradictory beliefs, and rationally meld various schools of thought into a living philosophy, developing over time a logical and systematic method to maintain and evaluate oneself in order to assist a person not merely survive but thrive. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A very wise person once told me marriage is hard, that you have to keep fighting for it everyday. ~ Liz Fenton

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes. ~ John C. Maxwell

A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers. ~ Paulo Coelho

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

What the wise acquire easily fools only acquire miraculously. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it. ~ Henry Cloud

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either. ~ Vera Nazarian

Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people. ~ Gautama Buddha

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems. ~ Prem Rawat

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

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it. ~ Seneca The Younger

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

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

Where there are more restrictions and prohibitions, there is also more poverty. Where there are many sharp weapons, there is also more chaos. Where the people are full of clever schemes, there are also strange outcomes. Where there are many laws and edicts, there is also an abundance of criminals. Therefore, the wise person: Practices non-action so that the people are naturally transformed. Welcomes quietude so that the people will naturally be civilized. Does not interfere so that the people will naturally be prosperous. ~ Lao-Tzu

An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions. ~ Debasish Mridha

A wise person learns from the mistakes of others, a normal person learns from their own, and a fool learns nothing, ever. ~ Robert J. Crane

A person cannot exert absolute control over a capricious environment. A wise person concentrates on serenely adjusting to variable permutations in the environs. A personal journey is less anxious if a person resolves to serve as a conscious witness to the natural world and the unfolding lives of family and friends. It is emotionally stabilizing when we no longer delude ourselves with grand fantasies about living and dying, experience life for what it is and stop wishing for a different existence, an altered universe. Nothing good comes from resisting reality. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. ~ Albert Einstein

The Buddha said: Believe nothing because a wise person said it, Believe nothing because it is generally held. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be Divine. Believe nothing because someone else believes it. But believe only what you yourself judge to be true. ~ Russill Paul

Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool. ~ Debasish Mridha

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

A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge. ~ Guatama Buddha

The saviour answered ... and said, If you want to be perfect, you will keep these teachings. If not, you deserve to be called ignorant. For a wise person cannot associate with a fool. The wise person is perfect in all wisdom, but to the fool, good and evil are one and the same. For the wise person will be nourished by the truth ... Some people have wings but run after what they can see, what is far from the truth. ~ Anonymous

Wise people heed the voice of reason;
the wisest heed the voice of God. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Think about your story in a new way,' the wise person says. 'You've been thinking of it as a loss. Now think of it as a liberation. What happened to you--it actually freed you up. And it didn't just free you up any old way. It freed you from some dead weight of the past so you could find a new home that would bring life to some part of you, maybe the best part of you. ~ Mira Kirshenbaum

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

we are made to follow leaders who can gather people together because the advantages of being in groups trump the disadvantages of being alone. It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers. Once ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?" ~ Marianne Williamson

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. ~ Diogenes

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser." ~ Pema Chodron

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

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

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. ~ John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something. ~ Molefi Kete Asante

Mind your own business; The best statement that any wise person can see as encouragement and best advice ever. ~ Unarine Ramaru

Unveil a person's thoughts,
and you are shrewd.
Unveil a person's desires,
and you are wise. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The job of the wise person is to swallow the frustration and just go on setting an example of caring and digging and diligence in their own lives. 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. Never forget ~ David Brooks

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

We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal - an illusion - since it rests upon the paper. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one. ~ Ramana Maharshi

The wise see in the dark;
the foolish are blind, even in light. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. ~ Earl Nightingale

Every wise person I meet I hope to be, for every fool I know is in agony. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

A wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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

The wise are in the light,
moving forward;
the foolish are in the dark,
moving backwards. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I have a gold bullion and a 'one additional minute for your life' in my hand; as a gift, if you choose the second one, then I say you are a wise person! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The wise person leads by remaining in the background. ~ Lao-Tzu

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

A wise person strives to reach self-transcendence by engaging in delicate contemplation, while avoiding the snare of self-denigration's negative invocation. An overshadowing sense of a caustic self can be destructive, whereas an encircling sense of a kindhearted self allows a person to express the profundity and elation of a feral creature curiously exploring nature's glorious playground. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough. ~ Albert Brooks

Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. ~ Gautama Buddha

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

But Shunt, he thirsted for understanding with obsessive perseverance. It was a pathology in this way, and pathologies aren't hobbies to be entertained through the inclination of the willing. With some assertion, you certainly can't direct a pathology: it directs, contorts, warps, wears you. Shunt walked through school, down his bedroom corridor, high-ceiling'd and close-panelled, over asphalt as hot as holiday sex, in his head, always relegated to a realm of internal mystery, a sphere of indecipherable symbols that were filtered in, held fast to, but never understood. He saw things or deduced things, and they were there for eternity. Once Shunt had them inside, it was impossible to divorce or expunge them, and so there they remained, infecting his peace and placidity of mind, thoughts like foreign bodies entering a gaping, unquenched wound, and after that Shunt's life devolved into the gangrene set in by these unpurged foreign bodies. Shunt suffered from epilepsy and a panic disorder. He didn't know who he was. He was not a funny person, a wise person, a valorous person, a soft person. Shunt was epilepsy and a panic disorder, and that's as encompassing as his personality had ever been. When you suffer a pathology it directs, contorts, warps, wears you. ~ Kirk Marshall

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

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

A wise person knows when and how to make the exception to every rule. A wise person knows how to improvise. Real-world problems are often ambiguous and ill-defined and the context is always changing. A wise person is like a jazz musician -- using the notes on the page, but dancing around them, inventing combinations that are appropriate for the situation and the people at hand. ~ Barry Schwarz

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

Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing. ~ Stephen King