Wise Quotes : Wise Sayings On Success In Life
These Wise quotes will inspire you. Wise, having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging wise quotes, wise sayings, and wise proverbs.
Inspirational Wise Quotes
- “Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.” ~ Arthur Helps
- “Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.” ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
- “Wise sayings are not only for ornament but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “I think a person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don’t like what you’re doing. There’s a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there’s no such thing as work, and there’s no such thing as getting tired. That’s been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they’ve all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.” ~ Joseph Campbell
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“There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.” ~ Robert Breault
- “I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: “Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.” ~ Joyce Rupp
- “To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.” ~ William James
- “A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.” ~ George Santayana
- “One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading-wise sayings.” ~ Robert Breault
- “Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.” ~ Alma Guillermoprieto
- “Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.” ~ George Santayana
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“A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge” ~ Robert Breault
- “A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement, but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are “never less alone than when alone,” might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.” ~ Arthur Helps
- “There was never a wise saying that couldn’t be made wiser by adding the words, “and vice-versa.” ~ Robert Breault
