Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Rumi
Quotes About Wise
26 quotes in the QuotePlace collection contain the word ‘wise’. Browse them all below — every card opens its own full quote page.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.Kūkai
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.Kahlil Gibran
The Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.Luther Standing Bear
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.Horace
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.Naguib Mahfouz
No man was ever wise by chance.Seneca
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.Gautama Buddha
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.Plato
The wise know the worth of money, but the rich do not know the worth of knowledge.Al-Biruni
Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.William Yeats
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.Lao Tzu
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.Bruce Lee
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?Confucius
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.Epictetus
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.Sam Levenson
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is colour-blind.Albert Schweitzer
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a months study of books.Chinese proverb
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical.Expect more than others think is p…Cadet Maxim
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.Lao Tzu
I endeavour to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress.Elizabeth Montagu
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.Plutarch
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.Francis Bacon
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.Plato
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.David Hume