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

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Frank Herbert

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Maurice Switzer

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Michel de Montaigne

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Michel Foucault

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Gabriel García Márquez

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Gautama Buddha

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Gautama Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

Gautama Buddha

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

Octavia E. Butler

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Oscar Wilde

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

George Eliot

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

George Orwell

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

George R.R. Martin

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Hamza Yusuf

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Oscar Wilde

It takes a very long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

Paul F. Davis

The sun always shines above the clouds.

Paul F. Davis

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

Harry Truman

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Henry David Thoreau

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

Henry James

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Heraclitus

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Robert A. Heinlein

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Robert A. Heinlein

May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...

Robert Fanney

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Heraclitus

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

Heraclitus

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

Heraclitus

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

Heraclitus

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Hermann Hesse

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Rumi

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