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Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom Quotes

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. - Satchel Paige


In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir


The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Lao Tzu


The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates


Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. - Jim Rohn


We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. - George Bernard Shaw


Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. - Archimedes


It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau


Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson


Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward


Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. - John Wooden


It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. - John Wooden


Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. - John Wooden


Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. - Anton Chekhov


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford


Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant


It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes


The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. - Walt Disney


Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven


A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela


Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. - Bob Marley


Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. - Confucius


You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. - Sammy Davis, Jr.


If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. - Lewis Carroll


Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw


Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein


Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao Tzu


To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. - Marilyn vos Savant


The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Be as you wish to seem. - Socrates


Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. - Iris Murdoch


Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas A. Edison


Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine


Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. - Elizabeth Kenny


Silence is true wisdom's best reply. - Euripides


A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. - John Lubbock


Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte


What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? - Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates


Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix


Commitment is an act, not a word. - Jean-Paul Sartre


Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. - Dr. Seuss


Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. - Francis of Assisi


Honesty is the best policy. - Benjamin Franklin


Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. - Rabindranath Tagore


If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. - Napoleon Bonaparte


Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers


The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. - Benjamin Franklin


There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. - Benjamin Franklin


Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. - Omar N. Bradley


Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. - Francis Bacon


Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. - Robert H. Schuller


He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. - Marcus Aurelius


Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein


Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. - Og Mandino


It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. - Epictetus


True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. - Socrates


Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud


Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H. L. Mencken


There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. - Plato


Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James


Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. - Joseph Campbell


I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. - Lucille Ball


A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. - Loretta Young


O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! - Walter Scott


A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. - Thomas Paine


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung


The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


You can observe a lot by watching. - Yogi Berra


There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. - Friedrich Nietzsche


People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. - Anton Chekhov


Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


When in doubt, don't. - Benjamin Franklin


Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. - D. H. Lawrence


Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. - C. S. Lewis


He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot


Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco


It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. - Leonardo da Vinci


There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. - Franklin D. Roosevelt


The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche


The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. - Ayn Rand


The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy


If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow


Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. - Oprah Winfrey


Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. - Phil Jackson


We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. - Max de Pree


Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Lord Tennyson


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland


Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. - Amelia Earhart


Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso


Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. - John Muir


The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin


The doors of wisdom are never shut. - Benjamin Franklin


The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. - Napoleon Bonaparte


It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Arthur Conan Doyle


Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. - Jean de La Fontaine


The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens


Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. - Pope Paul VI


It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. - Henry David Thoreau


Start wide, expand further, and never look back. - Arnold Schwarzenegger


Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Marcus Tullius Cicero


The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. - Don Shula


Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin


The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - William Blake


All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas


You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. - Will Rogers


To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell


Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. - Owen Feltham


A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost


Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. - Robert Kennedy


It isn't what you do, but how you do it. - John Wooden


If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. - Publilius Syrus


The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


The sweetest of all sounds is praise. - Xenophon


A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. - Khalil Gibran


There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. - Charles Dickens


Appearances are often deceiving. - Aesop


Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. - Yogi Berra


How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. - Coco Chanel


Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey


To win without risk is to triumph without glory. - Pierre Corneille


Once you label me you negate me. - Soren Kierkegaard


Never find fault with the absent. - Alexander Pope


Applause is a receipt, not a bill. - Dale Carnegie


The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. - John Burroughs


Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. - Plato


If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. - William Butler Yeats


Every silver lining has a cloud. - Mary Kay Ash


The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. - John F. Kennedy


The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay


Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. - e. e. cummings


First appearance deceives many. - Ovid


The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. - Marcus Tullius Cicero


We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. - James M. Barrie


It is better to rust out than wear out. - Edwin Markham


Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. - William Wordsworth


When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Giving opens the way for receiving. - Florence Scovel Shinn


The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. - John Burroughs


Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. - Arthur Helps


Wisdom comes alone through suffering. - Aeschylus


The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. - Norman Douglas


It is impossible to love and to be wise. - Francis Bacon


Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. - David Icke


Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder


Please all, and you will please none. - Aesop


Memory is the mother of all wisdom. - Aeschylus


When you doubt, abstain. - Ambrose Bierce


Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. - Franz Kafka


You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. - Clarence Day


When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. - George C. Marshall


From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. - Publilius Syrus


A promise made is a debt unpaid. - Robert W. Service


This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. - Brenda Ueland


To advise is not to compel. - Anton Chekhov


No man was ever wise by chance. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. - Confucius


Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. - Henry Van Dyke


Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides


Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt


To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. - Minna Antrim


A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants. - Joseph Addison


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