Best Wise Person Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.”

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Author:Mohith Agadi

“Find that person who will make your whole world tremble with a few words. Apprentice yourself faithfully to him until you can make your own world tremble constantly.”

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Author:Charbel Tadros

“Let's stop discussing about who a wise person is and start learning to become wise persons. Begin acquiring knowledge at the very moment you discover that there is something called "knowledge"!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“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.”

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Author:Charbel Tadros

“A leader, without wisdom, is dangerous. A wise person, without leadership, is useless. But if they work together, they are unstoppable.”

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Author:Charbel Tadros

“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.”

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Author:Debasish Mridha

“An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.”

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Author:Debasish Mridha

“A wise person is wise because he trusts his own being.”

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Author:Debasish Mridha

“If you are the wise person; you will learn the power of the ant and the elephant. You will be never overwhelming and surpassing of its length and size when you realise that.”

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Author:Ehsan Sehgal

“It is an insult to a wise person when his motives for guiding are questioned. However, he understands that people aren’t used to free gifts and still helps them anyway.”

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Author:Charbel Tadros

“A wise person knows that he should not allow his roots to grow too deep in this world, for the deeper they grow here, the shallower they become in spirituality.”

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Author:Charbel Tadros

“A wise person is he who can see a person how he sees himself.”

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Author:Debasish Mridha

“We have the mind and the consciousness of the universe. Due to our ignorance, we see the world and our own selves divided and separated into two units. A truly wise person sees the entire world in the self and the self in the world.”

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Book:31 Ways to Happiness

Source: 31 Ways to Happiness

“The wise person does not repeat the same mistake that ended him with defeat and sham”

Wise Person

Author:Ehsan Sehgal

“If you are a wise person, you will learn the power of the ant and the elephant. You will be never overwhelming and surpassing of its length and size when you realize that”

Wise Person

Author:Ehsan Sehgal

“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.”

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Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.”

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Book:The Doctor, &c

Source: The Doctor, &c

“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.”

“A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.”

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Author:Vera Nazarian

“The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .”

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Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.”

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Author:Timothy Leary

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Book:Jesus in Blue Jeans: A Practical Guide to Everyday Spirituality

Source: Jesus in Blue Jeans: A Practical Guide to Everyday Spirituality

“A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.”

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Author:Arthur Ashe

“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.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Trine

“The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked 'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?' The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.”

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Book:Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment

Source: Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment

“An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.”

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Author:Chanakya

“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!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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.”

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Author:Kostya Tszyu

“It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.”

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Author:Prince Hassan bin Talal

“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.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.”

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Author:Solomon

“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.”

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Author:Rumi

“It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.”

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Author:Doug Larson

“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.”

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Author:Laozi

“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.”

“I remember when I was writing my memoir and I was worried about what other people would think when they read it, and my mother, who can be this incredibly wise person, said that it really didn't matter because strangers who read it would never meet me anyway, and people I knew were aware of my secrets.”

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Author:Katy Lederer

“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.”

“It really was something, to see Ram Bahadur Bomjon, apparently living without food or water. Before I went on that trip I'd asked advice on it from a very wise person who I love and revere - basically trying to see if I was somehow disrespecting Buddhism by trying to write about it, and also looking for some grounding on what stance to take ... and my friend said, "Well, why don't you just go and see?" And I hear that in my head all the time now: "Why don't you go and see?"”

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Author:George Saunders

“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.”

“The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.”

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Author:Jonathan Swift

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”

“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”

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Author:Joseph Heller

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

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Author:Confucius

“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.”

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Book:Ye Are My Friends

Source: Ye Are My Friends

“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“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.”

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Book:Queen of Dreams

Source: Queen of Dreams

“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.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“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.”

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Author:Adi Shankara

“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.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger