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• 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

  Wise, Fall, Heart

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• 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

  Encouraging, Wise, Wisdom

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Enemy, Doe

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián, Aphorism 84, 1647.

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

  Lord Acton

  Success, Wise, Time

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

  Robert Southey

  Wise, Children, Reading

  Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.87

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• A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

  Debbie Ford

  Wise, Drinking, Dying

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• 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

  Wise, Real, Looks

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Children, Lying

  Mark Twain (2008). “Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Wise, Liars, Dumb

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• 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

  Wise, Air, Silence

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2007). “Queen of Dreams”, p.322, Anchor

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• 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

  Wise, Self, Meditation

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• The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Wisdom, Events

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• Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

  Earl Nightingale

  Wise, Famous Inspirational, Opportunity

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part III”, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Wise, Flower, Essence

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• Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wise, Truth

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• As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Spiritual, Heart

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• 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

  Wise, Buddhist, Forgiving

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• Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

  Alan Kay

  Wise, Typical, Cavemen

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• 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

  Wise, Buddhist, People

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• 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

  Wise, Cities, People

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

  Doug Larson

  Wise, Differences, Speech

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• 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

  Wise, Heaven, Earth

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• 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.

  Katy Lederer

  Wise, Mother, Writing

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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

  Pema Chodron

  Wise, Helping, Loser

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• 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.

  Prince Hassan bin Talal

  Wise, Responsibility, Bears

  Interview with Samina Ibrahim, newslinemagazine.com. May 2003.

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