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Wise Person Quotes

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
- Lord Acton

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
- Arthur Ashe

The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.
- Marvin J Ashton

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

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
- Jean De La Bruyere

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
- Albert Einstein

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
- Confucius

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.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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.
- Albert Schweitzer

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
- Joseph Heller

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
- Jen Knox

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
- Vera Nazarian

A wise person will be slow to show their anger...
But very quick and diligent to show love and kindness to all.
- Timothy Pina

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
- Jonathan Swift

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

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
- Terence

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