Quotes on Wise Person

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.

Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person _x000D_ accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

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

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.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

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.