Top 40 Wise Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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2. “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

— Plato

3. “The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

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4. “Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”

— Napoleon Hill

5. “Look for the answer inside your question.”

— Rumi

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6. “As a wise man once said, ‘If not us, then who; if not now, then when?’”

— Michael Jackson

7. “The poor look for jobs while the rich build networks.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

8. “Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”

— William Penn

9. “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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10. “Everyday is a new life to a wise man.”

— Dale Carnegie

11. “God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

12. “Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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13. “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

— Confucius

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14. “Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality.”

— Tony Robbins

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15. “We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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16. “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

17. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”

— James Oppenheim

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18. “A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.”

— Hippocrates

19. “No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”

— Lee Iacocca

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20. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

— Bruce Lee

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21. “To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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22. “For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

23. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

— William James

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24. “Wise men change, fools stay the same.”

— Kevin Gates

25. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

— Francis Bacon

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26. “Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”

— Ram Dass

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27. “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

— Paulo Coelho

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28. “The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.”

— Immanuel Kant

29. “You can’t be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.”

— Chris Brown

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30. “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

— Naguib Mahfouz

31. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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32. “Get mad, then get over it.”

— Colin Powell

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33. “A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.”

— Confucius

34. “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

— Khalil Gibran

35. “If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.”

— Confucius

36. “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

37. “Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can’t help falling in love with you.”

— Elvis Presley

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38. “In solitude, where we are least alone.”

— Lord Byron

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39. “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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40. “Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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