Quotes about wise
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
My idea of Christmas is love so pure and so divine.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
The greatest sacred sayings I love you.
Debasish Mridha -
Be wise enough to forgive be kind enough to love.
Matthieu Ricard - Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
One is not born wise one becomes it.
A. Spencer -
Fools put trust in promises The wise in action.
Debasish Mridha M.D. -
It is not that I am wise it is because I see everything through nonjudgmental love and kindness.
Aditya Ajmera -
What separates the wise from the unwise is how a person reacts and responds to each new twist of fate.
Felix Wantang - God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
A wiseman invests in something that lasts forever the only investment that meets this criteria is the word of God. Matthew 24:35.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
This was a freedom essential to the health even of a character so little susceptible of morbid influences as that of Phoebe. The old house [with dry rot in its structure and perhaps also in its inhabitants]...it was not good to breathe no other atmosphere that that.
Dan Groat - A Punctual Paymaster
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.
Todd Stocker -
The wise pause the foolish react.
Stephen Crane -
A man feared that he might find an assassinAnother that he might find a victim.One was more wise than the other.
Maya Angelou -
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
Blessin Bmj -
If wise are allowed to thinkthey do...but few dont speak!!In the case Of fools...Even if you dont allow them to think..They will Speak!
Richelle E. Goodrich -
Your life is not a simulation it's the real game. Play wisely.
Helen Keller -
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.
Winston Churchill -
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Michael Leunig -
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
Herbert Spencer -
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Alexander Meiklejohn -
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
Jean de la Bruyere -
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Sandra Day O'Connor -
I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.
John Podesta -
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
Stockwell Day -
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
Samuel Johnson -
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Eve Babitz -
I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'
Sholom Aleichem -
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Benjamin Franklin -
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Sun Tzu -
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol -
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Gifford Pinchot -
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.
Alcuin -
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
William Arthur Ward -
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
Wilbur Wright -
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Demosthenes -
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
George Santayana -
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Apollonius of Tyana -
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
Edward Everett Hale -
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Benjamin Franklin -
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Plato -
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
William Shakespeare -
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Harry Day -
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Oliver Goldsmith -
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.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.
Matshona Dhliwayo -
A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.
Matshona Dhliwayo -
A wolf's thoughts are seldom far from its appetite.
Matshona Dhliwayo -
A wolf only attends a rabbit’s funeral to eat its young.
Matshona Dhliwayo -
If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
My life is full of love.
Melvyn M. Lusterio -
A happier life is a life for God & His Christmas now & forever! Alleluia! Amen!
Melvyn M. Lusterio -
A happier life is a life for God & His Christ now & forvever! Alleluia! Amen!
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Life is sacred gift. There is nothing to lose, only joy.
Seja Majeed -
They throw their stones at you not expecting that you would catch them with a smile. But a wise soul knows that what life throws at you today, is only preparing you for a stronger tomorrow. After all, you can't build a castle without first laying down its foundations...
Tony Curl - Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
When you find yourself internally, you find what nourishes you from within. You lose that entitlement and anger when YOU deliver.
Eric Samuel Timm -
God invites us to start and continue each day with Him. I have found it wise to accept His request.
Ricky Maye - Barefoot Christianity
Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.
Anonymous -
WISDOM is the STRONGEST weapon you could EVER acquire in your LIFETIME.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The glory of youth is the grace of strength.
Orson Scott Card - Earth Unaware
As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they like what you will become someday.
Laurie Penny -
Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how curiously bullshit-resistant they are. Because of the subjects I write about, I am often contacted by young people and I see it as a part of my job to reply to all of them - and doing so has confirmed a suspicions I’ve had for some time. I think that the generation about to hit adulthood is going to
Nadun Lokuliyanage -
You don't have to look nice to be wise.
Gugu Mona -
Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always prefer to learn from others.
Munia Khan -
Not every wall needs a ceiling
Seja Majeed - The Forgotten Tale of Larsa
We are all meant to be a little broken, it's just about finding someone who will take the time to mend you. Someone who loves you enough to want to find the pieces that may have fallen from you and glue you back together. This is what love is, to restore someone when they have been broken and chipped, and all the while, feeling content whilst mending them...
Matshona Dhliwayo -
If you try to test a river’s depths with both feet, you will drown.
Laura Lane - and Courage
I truly believe that the children who are diagnosed with cancer are some of the wisest, sweetest, strongest, and most loving children. They have gained a bigger perspective of the world in such a short time. They become wise beyond their years.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
You will know those who love you, when you are in need.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!
Munia Khan -
If wisdom is a place, you should be the wisest one to live there..
Pawan Mishra - Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Sometimes fate just plays a strange scrabble.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana - Sweet Destiny
Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.
Manoj Vaz -
Everybody learns from their own mistakes.The wise learn from mistakes others make.
Bradley B. Dalina -
Air, Food, Water, Shelter, Love and Godis what we all need to live.If one more thing is missing, it's being wise.WISE enough to consume them wisely.
Bradley B. Dalina -
Air, Food, Water, Shelter, Love and Godis what we all need to live.If one more thing is missing, it's being wise.WISE enough to consume them well.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely.
Donna Lynn Hope -
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.
Muhammad Imran Hasan -
Others Are Smarter Than Me But Here's The Difference, I'm Wise....
Steve Maraboli -
The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Life is a sacred spark of divinity.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Fix your gazes on the invisible.
Russell Brand - Revolution
The world is awash with colours unseen and abuzz with unheard frequencies. Undetected and disregarded. The wise have always known that these inaccessible realms, these dimensions that cannot be breached by our beautifully blunt senses, hold the very codes to our existence, the invisible, electromagnetic foundations upon which our gross reality clumsily rests.
Craig D. Lounsbrough - Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
I want to ‘think’ that I have all the answers. But if I ‘think’, I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I ‘think’ yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Empathy is the door to wisdom.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.
Eraldo Banovac -
A wise man is humble, knowing he actually doesn't know much.
Ufuoma Apoki -
Good intentions do not always suffice.
Shon Mehta -
When I was young, I thought I was a very smart and learned person.But now, the more I read, the more I learn, the more I think, the humbler I become.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
By studying yesterday, you will understand today.
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at every featherThat comes before his eye. This is a practiseAs full of labour as a wise man's artFor folly that he wisely shows is fit;But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The heavenly Father is wise in heart.
Debasish Mridha -
The past gave us experience and made us wiser so that we can create a beautiful and brighter future.
Tyler Edwards - Zombie Church: Breathing Life Back Into the Body of Christ
God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a relationship with Him. This means not only hearing but allowing our understanding of God to change the way we live. Like the wise builder who laid the foundation of his house on the rock, we learn to let our knowledge of God change us.
Stephen King - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.
Jan Jansen Easy Branches -
If You want to be an educated person follow nobody, but learn from everybody
Richie Norton -
Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The worth of a book is infinite.
Debasish Mridha -
An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.