Wise Person Quotes - Page 3

• When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them.

  Kostya Tszyu

  Wise, Play, Use

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• Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

  Confucius

  Life, Wise, Organization

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• It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Wise, Selfish, People

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• We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

  Prem Rawat

  Wise, Thinking, Problem

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• An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Crazy, Insane

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• I have a gold bullion and a 'one additional minute for your life' in my hand; as a gift, if you choose the second one, then I say you are a wise person!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Wise, Hands

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• It really was something, to see Ram Bahadur Bomjon, apparently living without food or water. Before I went on that trip I'd asked advice on it from a very wise person who I love and revere - basically trying to see if I was somehow disrespecting Buddhism by trying to write about it, and also looking for some grounding on what stance to take ... and my friend said, "Well, why don't you just go and see?" And I hear that in my head all the time now: "Why don't you go and see?"

  George Saunders

  Wise, Writing, Buddhism

  Source: sojo.net

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• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Fear, Bores You

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• The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Time, Age

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• A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

  Arthur Ashe

  Wise, Decision, Persons

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• The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Wise, Mean, Practice

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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