Wise Quotes

My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom.

~ Samuel Morse

The humble one is the better one.

~ Lik Hock Yap

Wondering is the act of wise living.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

~ Elizabeth George

People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy.

~ Pawan Mishra

Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not. More or less selfish, happy, wise, lonely.

~ Adi Alsaid

They asked a wise man: Why don’t we ever hear you backbiting and slandering?He said: I’m still not happy with myself to start with others.

~ Ahmad Musa Jibril

Divine open doors are not for the arrogant, adulterers and wasters, they are only meant for the humble that will be wise with the opportunity and blessing that comes from them.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

The wise will make holiness and purity their priority.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Death is not an option. Death is inevitable. But death is a choice.

~ Lik Hock Yap Ivan

To grow, be humble and ask questions most of the time. When you do so, a wise and smart person sees him/herself in you and treats you with dignity. On the other hand, if you ask questions and try to learn from a shallow and fool person, s/he treats you with contempt and disrespect. Now, you know who is who...

~ Assegid Habtewold

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

~ David Levithan

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

~ Helen Keller

Many talk about flowing against the wind, but its only fools, who goes against the wind. The wise one’s, simply adjust themselves with the flow of the wind.

~ Roshan Sharma

I am determined to do my very best.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to explore, search and seek the unlimited possibilities in life

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Embrace your sacred existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The fool will pay anything to live a few more years on earth, but the fool rejects the free gift of everlasting life. Salvation is a wise choice.

~ Felix Wantang

The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

~ O. Henry

Son: 'Mum, Tell me about love, how will I know if she's the one? Mum: ' son, if there's one thing I could teach about love its to Embrace it when it touches your heart, & to release it when it's stagnating your journey. Love is not a maybe thing & if it doesn't change you in someway it's not worthy of your essence.

~ Nikki Rowe

A mistake from a good person always gets treated as crime.

~ Pratik Akkawar

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job.

~ R. N. Prasher

It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.

~ Veronica Roth

The stars in the sky are immeasurable.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your desire to advise other people, grows in line with your perception...that assumes you're wiser than them.

~ Toba Beta

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.

~ John C. Maxwell

A wiseman invests in something that lasts forever, the only investment that meets this criteria is the word of God. Matthew 24:35.

~ Felix Wantang

You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you'll REGRET it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Literary Agent: “I meant manuscript wise.”Tina: “Ohh. Um, yes. I’ve brought a few with me, just some rough drafts. (shuffle, shuffle) You might say something of an experiment.

~ Christina Engela

Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise.

~ Craig Groeschel

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

~ Cornel West

To be intelligent, be complex; to be wise, be simple.

~ Debasish Mridha

It is better to experience than to be told. But it is wiser to learn from the great sacred-souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My favourite thing is when my mother goes in the other to go and to talk to the phone, I use that moment for wisdom.

~ Deyth Banger

[A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two—because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit.

~ Pawan Mishra

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?

~ Pirkei Avot

I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear.

~ Patrick Rothfuss