4,693 Quotes About Wise

In a world where everyone is wise, only the one who is wiser than others deserves the title of wise!

Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.

I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.

Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.

If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.

While the wise person does not invite hardship, the first thing that they see when it shows up is opportunity.