100+ Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

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Wisdom is the central quality of all greatness. The wise have always led and always will lead those who are less wise.

Below you will find our collection of Wise Quotes & Sayings by famous authors, writers, world's wisest thinkers and more

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.

If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.

Benny Bellamacina

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

Dan Millman

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracián

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

Milton Berle

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : The most complicated skill is to be simple.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

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

Paulo Coelho

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : We learn from failure, not from success!

We learn from failure, not from success!

Bram Stoker

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

Allan Rufus

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

John Russell

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable

Gary L. Francione

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief.

Anonymous

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Fran Lebowitz

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Michael Bassey Johnson

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Albert Einstein

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Hippolyte Taine

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

Homer

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Homer

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Joss Whedon

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

C.S. Lewis

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Dale Carnegie

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

Ken Kesey

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Paulo Coelho

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

Catherynne M. Valente

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

Catherynne M. Valente

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

Harper Lee

for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

Honoré de Balzac

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Thomas Paine

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Horace

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

A.A. Milne

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Kevin Brooks

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