Wise Person Quotes

If you want to be a wise person, you need a Bible.

Alistair Begg

Wise, Needs, Want

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

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Henry Cloud

Wise, Light, Trying

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A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.

Solomon

Wise, Instruction, Persons

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A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.

Paulo Coelho

Wise, Answers, Dull

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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

Wise, Mistake, Said

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The wise person questions himself, the fool others.

Henri Arnold Seyrig

Inspirational, Life, Wise

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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

Wise, Revenge, Blow

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

Diogenes

Leadership, Wise, Counselor

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

Thomas Carlyle

Wise, Wisdom, Events

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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

Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

1965 Quoted in CBS News tribute,14 Jan.

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

Jonathan Swift

Wise, Time, Age

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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Arthur Ashe

Wise, Decision, Persons

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

Confucius

Life, Wise, Organization

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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

Wise, Mean, Practice

Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

Dennis Weaver

Wise, Helping Others, Making A Difference

"All the World's a Stage".

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

Jean de la Bruyere

Wise, Fear, Bores You

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