Wise Quotes
Wise Sayings
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
For the wise man looks into space
and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
Wiser Quotes and Sayings
We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
I do not think much of a man who is
not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser
than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
Wisest Quotes and Sayings
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Wisely Quotes and Sayings
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
Choose wisely - then act decisively. Do it today!
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of health for both mind and body
is not to mourn for the past,
nor to worry about the future,
but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- The Buddha
Wisdom Quotes and Sayings
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you,
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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