Wise Person Quotes

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

  Alistair Begg

  Wise, Needs, Want

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Wise, Contribution To Society

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 20, 2013

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

  Diogenes

  Leadership, Wise, Counselor

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• A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.

  Solomon

  Wise, Instruction, Persons

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• Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Kindness, Selfish

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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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 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.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Wise, Men, Ideas

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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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• The wise person questions himself, the fool others.

  Henri Arnold Seyrig

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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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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• 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.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Inspirational, Wise, Good Life

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

  Vera Nazarian

  Wise, Rocks, Take Time

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• 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.

  Timothy Leary

  Wise, Religious, Expression

  "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out". Book by Timothy Leary, 1999.

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Powerful, School

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• 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.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Wise, Doe, Study

  Laurie Beth Jones (2011). “Jesus in Blue Jeans: A Practical Guide to Everyday Spirituality”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Wise, Lying, Knowledge

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (1990). “Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment”, p.139, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• 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.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Religious, Mistake

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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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• 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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• 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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