Wise Quotes



The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

~ William Shakespeare Quotes

Famous Quotes on: Love, Wise




Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

~ Confucius Quotes

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The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.

~ Krishna Quotes from The Bhagavad Gita

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"Death is our eternal companion. It is always to our left, an arm's length behind us. Death is the only wise adviser that a warrior has. Whenever he feels that everything is going wrong and he's about to be annihilated, he can turn to his death and ask if that is so. His death will tell him that he is wrong, that nothing really matters outside its touch. His death will tell him, I haven't touched you yet.'"

~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

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As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

~ Buddha Quotes from The Dhammapada

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Men are wise, not in proportion to their experience, but in their capacity for experience.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.

~ Theodor Sorenson Quotes

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Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; but doing well is the wisest and best of all.

~ Unknown Quotes

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The wise man then followed a simple way of life—which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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