100+ Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

100+ Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

288 Quotes

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : The most complicated skill is to be simple.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

 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 : If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

Milton Berle

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

 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

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

Anonymous

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

We learn from failure, not from success!

Bram Stoker

 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

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

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

Hippolyte Taine

 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 : 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 : 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

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

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

John Russell

 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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 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

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

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Aberjhani

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Abraham H. Maslow

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.

Aeschylus

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Alan W. Watts

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Alan W. Watts

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Anton Chekhov

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.

Brian Rathbone

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

C.S. Lewis

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Albert Einstein

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