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  • What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

    Wise   Revenge   Blow  
  • The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked 'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?' The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.

    Wise   Lying   Knowledge  
    Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (1990). “Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment”, p.139, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
  • Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

    Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part III”, Lulu.com
  • The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

    Wise   Enemy   Doe  
    "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián, Aphorism 84, 1647.
  • The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.

    Wise   Men   Ideas  
  • The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

  • 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.

    Wise   Selfish   People  
  • The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

    Wise   Wisdom   Events  
  • An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

    Wise   Wisdom   Attitude  
    1965 Quoted in CBS News tribute,14 Jan.
  • Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

    Wise   Children   Lying  
    Mark Twain (2008). “Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.

    "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out". Book by Timothy Leary, 1999.
  • heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.

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

    Wise   Thinking   Problem  
  • A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.

    Wise   Answers   Dull  
  • It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

    Wise   Liars   Dumb  
  • Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

  • We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal - an illusion - since it rests upon the paper. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one.

    Wise   Real   Looks  
    "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.
  • A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.

    Smile   Wise   Laughter  
  • It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.

    Interview with Samina Ibrahim, newslinemagazine.com. May 2003.
  • 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.

    Wise   Mistake   Said  
  • What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

    Wise   Children   Reading  
    Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.87
  • Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace.

    Wise   Kindness   Selfish  
    His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
  • As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.

    Wise   Spiritual   Heart  
  • A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

    Wise   Drinking   Dying  
  • A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  • A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.

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

    Wise   Fear   Bores You  
  • Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

  • A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

  • Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

    Wise   Air   Silence  
    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2007). “Queen of Dreams”, p.322, Anchor
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