Wise Quotes

A wise person knows that there is something

to be learned from everyone.

-Unknown

If you want to fly,

you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

-Unknown

Don't depend too much on anyone in this world

because even your shadow leaves you 

when you're in darkness.

-Unknown

We are made wise not by recollection of our past,

but by responsibility for our future.

-George Bernard Shaw

Be yourself;

everyone else is already taken.

-Oscar Wilde

Before you act, listen.

Before you react, think.

Before you spend, earn.

Before you criticize, wait.

Before you pray, forgive.

Before you quit, try.

-Ernest Hemingway

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,

to buy things they don't want,

to impress people they don't like.

-Will Rogers

The intellect of wise is like glass,

it admits the light of heavens and reflects it.

-Augustus Hare

There is a difference between giving up and

knowing when you have had enough.

-Unknown



The older you get,
the more you realize that it isn't about material things,
or pride or ego.
It's about our hearts and who they beat for.
-R.A.




Wise men speak because they have something to say;
Fools because they have to say something.
-Plato



Gossip dies when it hits a wise person's ears.
-Unknown



The wiser a man is the less talkative will he be.
-Hazrat Ali




A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
-Marilyn Monroe



Wise people are not always silent,
but they know when to be.
-Unknown



A wise man should have money in his head,
but not in his heart.
-Jonathan Swift



All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times;
but to make them truly ours,
we must think them over again honestly,
till they take root in our personal experience.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



We are made wise not by the recollection of our fast.
But by the responsibility for our future.
-George Bernard Shaw



A wise man gets more use from his enemies
than a fool from his friends.
-Baltazar Gracian




The wise man doesn't give the right answer,
he poses the right questions.
-Claude Levi-Strauss