Wise Quotes
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.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Perhaps we are not really sinners in the hands of an angry God, after all. Perhaps we are all more like seedlings in the hands of a wise gardener.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
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.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
There is no God in Buddha’s teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha’s teachings. All that there is, is simple “Karma” or “Work” – that is the “Dhamma” or “Duty” or “Religion” he preached.
