369 Wisdom Quotes (Page-7) – 181-210
181.
“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”
― Epictetus
182.
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”
― David Starr Jordan
183.
“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
184.
“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
185.
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
― Nelson Mandela
186.
“Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.”
― Bob Dylan
187.
“There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.”
― Brigham Young
188.
“The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend.”
― Rabia Basri
189.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Aristotle
190.
“There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.”
― Bonar Law
191.
“Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one’s own efforts.”
― Thomas Paine
192.
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius
193.
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
― Dalai Lama
194.
“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.”
― Dalai Lama
195.
“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”
― William Osler
196.
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
― John Wooden
197.
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
― Meister Eckhart
198.
“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”
― William Wordsworth
199.
“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”
― Margaret Thatcher
200.
“A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.”
― Thomas Browne
201.
“Seek your own Reality, that is what a wise man should do.”
― Sathya Sai Baba
202.
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
― Plato
203.
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”
― Grantland Rice
204.
“If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.”
― Ja’far al-Sadiq
Wise Words by Ali ibn Abi Talib
205.
“When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.”
― Ali ibn Abi Talib
206.
“Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him.”
― Ali ibn Abi Talib
207.
“Stubbornness destroys good advice.”
― Ali ibn Abi Talib
208.
“It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.”
― Ali ibn Abi Talib
209.
“Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.”
― Ali ibn Abi Talib
210.
“Greed is permanent slavery.”
― Ali ibn Abi Talib
