Best 128 quotes in «wise man quotes» category

A fool is surrounded by blessings, but is chained by folly and thus cannot reach them. A wise person is surrounded by blessings, and has extra-long arms to reach for them.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.

A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.

A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them

An insincere wise man has more power than a sincere fool.

A sage is a student, though a teacher.

A sage can see further than a predator.

A scholar's weapon is his pen; a sage's weapon, his deeds.

A sage's mind is a storeroom of great riches.

A sage's lowest wisdom surpasses a scholar's highest wisdom.

Autumn leaf waits for autumn wind to reach the unreachable places; wise mind waits for silence for the same reason!

A wise man has his happiness in things that avoided.

A wise man's sorrow is better than a fool's happiness.

A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.

A wise man doesn't start what he doesn't know to do.

A wise man learns from his mistakes; a fool won't even learn from his fatal ones. There is no such thing as an intentional mistake, but no man is a fool accidentally.

A wise person says well what he or she thinks, but is wary of himself or herself and what he or she says.

A wise man has more power over his enemies than they have over themselves.

A wise man is always constrained in decision-making.

A wise man never dwells in the past because he knows he belongs to the future.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

A wise man is humble, knowing he actually doesn't know much.

A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.

A wise man is closer to God than a fool will ever be to himself.

A word from the wise is better than a thesis from a fool.

BEING GREEDY IS NOT TRUSTING THAT GOD WILL PROVIDE MORE! PLEASE BELIEVE HIM! #HOPENATION

Between two extraordinarily high dangers, the wise man choses the one he can at least fight against!

A True Wise Man Surrenders Every Thing Freely To God While Alive. A Foolish Man Surrenders Every Thing Forcefully At The Time Of Death.

Building castles in the air is only wise if you build a ladder to reach them.

Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.

Calm is the best revenge

Do not wait for the tide to take you, my boy. Instead, you take on the tide

De wijze heeft geen onwrikbare beginselen. Hij past zich aan anderen aan. (Free translation into English: The wise man has no firm principles. He adapts to others.)

Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

Every challenge, I have faced, dares me to seek a higher power.

Follow the river to reach the sea; follow the sea to reach the ocean. And finally follow the ocean to reach the wisdom! As long as you target beyond of the beyond, you will reach the very beyond!

Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.

God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe.

Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it

GOD SAYS; YOU'LL NEVER LOSE A FIGHT THAT WASN'T FIXED! #HOPENATION

He is no fool who gives up what he wants to get what he needs.

Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears.

If there is no reward, there is no reason to run

If you think you can't, you're wrong and right

If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage.

In place of fellow feeling, seeing each other alone, is enough to raise the empathy of human beings.

I see the world as one big nation where everyone in it is a citizen. So it is our collective responsibility to make it better in every little way that we can.