Best Wise Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“when we have to do with vice and vicious characters, I maintain it is better to depict them as they really are than as they would wish to appear.”

“Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?”

“Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.”

“Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.”

“Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely”

“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”

“A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.”

“Wisdom comes from reflection.”

“When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.”

“No shortcut to wisdom.”

“One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.”

“If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.”

“Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.”

“Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.”

“Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.”

“Only wise men look for new wisdom.”

“Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...”

“We know that for mankind to move forward, changes must be made. However, if an old man is wise only by his gray hair, yet it is inevitable that this wisdom will also become impaired by age, then it can be deduced that we cannot expect the very old or very young to make progressive strides to better society, it must be up to the men and women still in the prime of their lives to re-learn and teach the changes needed to be made.”

“My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.”

“To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired”

“For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.”

“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.”

“Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.”

“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”

“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!”

“Your life is not a simulation; it's the real game. Play wisely.”

“I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels.”

“Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.”

“the woman is rain,”

“If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.”