Wisdom quotes
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
– Jimi Hendrix
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
– Bob Marley
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
– Satchel Paige
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
– Buddha
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
– Rumi
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
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
– Buddha
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
– Confucius
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
– George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
– Calvin Coolidge
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
You can observe a lot by watching.
– Yogi Berra
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
– Francis of Assisi
Wisdom begins in wonder.
– Socrates
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
– John Steinbeck
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
– Saint Augustine
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
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
– William Arthur Ward
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
– Henry Ford
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
– Walt Disney
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
– Bo Bennett
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
– Dale Turner
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
– Charles Dickens
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
– Elizabeth Kenny
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
– Immanuel Kant
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
– Henry David Thoreau
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
– Nelson Mandela
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
Commitment is an act, not a word.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
– John Wooden
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
– Marilyn vos Savant
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
– Richard Nixon
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
– Anton Chekhov
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
– William Blake
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A charming woman… doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself.
– Loretta Young
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
– Jim Rohn
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
– John Wooden
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
– Confucius
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
– Saint Basil
Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.
– Euripides
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
– Lewis Carroll
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
– Og Mandino
When in doubt, don’t.
– Benjamin Franklin
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.
– Joan Rivers
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
– H. L. Mencken
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
– Thomas Edison
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
– John C. Maxwell
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
– Buddha
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
– Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
– Brian O’Driscoll
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
– Alfred Austin
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
– George Bernard Shaw
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
– Swami Vivekananda
Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.
– Liu Xiaobo
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
– Sigmund Freud
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It’s about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it’s about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
– Tom Peters
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
– Anton Chekhov
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
– Charles Spurgeon
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
– Charles Spurgeon
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
– Rabindranath Tagore