Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. — Bryant H. McGill
The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never. — Immanuel Kant
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Birthday Wise Quotes
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories. — Buddy Valastro
You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo — Dana Rosemary Scallon
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. — C. E. M. Joad
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. — Herbert V. Prochnow
Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change. — Molly Keane
Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. — Alexander Pope
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. — Euripides
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. — Edward Steichen
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do. — Phyllis Diller
Inspirational Wise Quotes
In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves. — Ann Landers
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right. — Ravi Zacharias
Fools live to regret their words, the wise regret their silence.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him — Ali ibn Abi Talib
The real work is in the Heart:
Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
Then it needs no Friend. — Rabia Basri
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — Joseph Campbell
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. — C. S. Lewis
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. — Socrates
What we speak becomes the house we live in. — Hafez
Motivational Wise Quotes
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. — Malcolm X
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Fools take the knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord and free themselves from the fools.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present — Mahatma Gandhi
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. — Melanie Griffith
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat. — Paulo Coelho
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop — Paulo Coelho
A small act is worth a million thoughts. — Ai Weiwei
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. — Abraham Maslow
You Are Wise Quotes
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness. — Ibn Taymiyyah
You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today! — Paul Washer
You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. — Taylor Swift
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools. — Plato
Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. — Carol S. Dweck
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money. — Voltaire
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be. — Dale Carnegie
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise. — Shimon Peres
Wise Words Quotes
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. — Socrates
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him. — Al-Shafi‘i
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned" — Al-Ghazali
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. — Thomas S. Monson
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. — Bill Nye
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. — Edward R. Murrow
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. — Charles Bukowski
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. — Hesiod
Wise Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. — Charles Spurgeon
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ? — Gene Wilder
Put aside your pride,
Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. — Otto von Bismarck
To admit you were wrong is to declare you are wiser now than before.
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. — Aristotle
The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them. — Lao Tzu
Wise Life Quotes
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. — Viktor E. Frankl
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. — Bob Proctor
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
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. — Sonia Sotomayor
If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer. — Huldrych Zwingli
Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed. — Saadi Shirazi
There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask. — George Jones
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. — Sigmund Freud
The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people. — Leo Tolstoy
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Being Wise Quotes
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. — Galileo Galilei
Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence." — Rumi
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. — William Shakespeare
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
Before becoming a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or a Christian, let's become a Human first. — Unknown Author
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. — Moli
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. — Booker T. Washington
Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others. — Gorgias
Wise Man Once Said Quotes
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear. — Hippocrates
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right. — Lao Tzu
If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I? — Omar Khayyam
Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful. — Ritwik Ghatak
A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. — Frank Zappa
If you chase two rabbits,
you catch none. — Confucius
He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily. — Sun Tzu
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. — Seneca
Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose. — Solomon
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Wise People Quotes
Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes. — Ajahn Brahm
I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild. — Albert Hofmann
Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us. — Patrick Pearse
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. — E. O. Wilson
Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever. — Danielle Steel
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. — Arthur Miller
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe
Words Of The Wise Quotes
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. — Malcolm Muggeridge
You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea. — Yasmin Mogahed
The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy. — Deepak Chopra
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words. — Elliott Erwitt
The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside. — Tenzin Palmo
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are. — Denis Waitley
Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need. — Thales
When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland
A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men. — Saadi Shirazi
I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions. — Morgan Freeman
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. — Benjamin Franklin
The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change. — Malcolm X
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. — Baltasar Gracian
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. — Salvador Dali
Good Wise Quotes
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave — Elijah Muhammad
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry. — Plautus
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men — Gifford Pinchot
. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you. — J. Willard Marriott
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams
No one is perfect. If you look for the bad you will find it. If you look for the good, you will find it. Choose wisely what you look for. — Lex Fridman
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else — Buddha
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. — Albert Einstein
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. — Plato
Wise Person Quotes
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
The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. — Proverbs
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
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
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness — Esther Hicks
A wise person doesn’t fall down the same hill twice. — African Proverbs
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow. — Epictetus
We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems. — Prem Rawat
A fool has to say something. A wise person has something to say. — African Proverbs
Very Wise Quotes
Those who take the lead take it by doing three things. First, science to be able to manoeuvre; second, knowledge to be able to heavily invest in education; and third, a very wise leadership with a clear vision and a roadmap to the right direction. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember. — George Carlin
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice? — Bette Midler
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny. — Joseph Campbell
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did. — Christine de Pizan
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' — John Abbott
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first. — Audrey Hepburn
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. — Samuel Johnson
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
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