Wise People Quotes

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Death

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Spiritual, Courage

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Success, Failure, Men

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• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

  James Patterson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

  Duke of Wellington

  Motivational, Education, Wise

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• Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Wise, People

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

  Charlie Munger

  Wise, Zero, People

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• Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

  Aristophanes

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

  John Ortberg

  Wise, People, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2014

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• It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  Victor Hugo

  Wise, Book, People

  "Toilers of the Sea".

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• Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

  John Piper

  Wise, People, Knows

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition”, p.175, B&H Publishing Group

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• Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Wise, Pain, Cutting

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.23

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• Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wise, Thinking, Likes And Dislikes

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.33, Xist Publishing

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• As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

  M. Scott Peck

  Wise, Spiritual, Hurt

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always said it's important to take advice from people who have what you want because otherwise, people are just guessing.

  Mastin Kipp

  People, Advice, Important

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• Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

  Roger N. Walsh

  Happiness, Wise, Grateful

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• Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Wise, Philosophy, Failure

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• You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are.

  Doc Watson

  Being Yourself, People, Knows

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