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

He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy;But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise.

William Blake

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

Robert Fanney

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Emily Brontë

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

William Blake

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Karl R. Popper

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

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

Anton Chekhov

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

John F. Kennedy

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Patrick Ness

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Frank Herbert

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Leonardo da Vinci

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Aristotle

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Albert Einstein

Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.

C. JoyBell C.

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

Heraclitus

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Heraclitus

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

Victor Hugo

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

Heraclitus

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

Octavia E. Butler

Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!

C. JoyBell C.

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

Heraclitus

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

Sara Teasdale

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

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

Heraclitus

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Michael Levine

Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

Dejan Stojanovic

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

Dejan Stojanovic

I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.

Dejan Stojanovic

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

Dejan Stojanovic

I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!

C. JoyBell C.

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

Dejan Stojanovic

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Sarah Addison Allen

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

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

Paul F. Davis

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Theodore Roosevelt

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