100 Wisdom Quotes

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” — Seneca

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” — Rosa Parks

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

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” — René Descartes

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee

“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.”

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” — Francis Bacon

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” — William Shakespeare

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.” — Terry Pratchett

“Do not listen with the intent to reply, but with the intent to understand.”

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” — Victor Hugo

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” — Lao Tzu

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“Time stays long enough for those who use it wisely.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” — Dale Carnegie

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” — William Faulkner

“A wise person knows that there is something to be learned from everyone.”

“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle

“It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” — Nelson Mandela

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha

“Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” — Elbert Hubbard

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” — Chinese Proverb

“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.” — Plato

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs

“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.” — Bob Marley

“The wiser you get, the less you speak.”

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” — Saint Augustine

“Don’t waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear.” — Paulo Coelho

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” — Albert Einstein

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Wisdom is not about knowing everything. It’s about knowing the right questions to ask.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.” — Chinese Proverb

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” — Bertrand Russell

“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” — John Maxwell

“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” — Desmond Tutu

“You don’t have to attend every argument you are invited to.”

“If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.” — Chinese Proverb

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” — Khalil Gibran

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” — Lao Tzu

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama

“Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.”

“You learn more from failure than from success.”

“Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.”

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” — Socrates

“A closed mind is already defeated.”

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin

“The wise warrior avoids the battle.” — Sun Tzu

“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.” — Lao Tzu

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” — Albert Einstein

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Speak when you are angry and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” — Laurence J. Peter

“Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” — Mark Twain

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain

“Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.”

“A happy heart makes the face cheerful.” — Proverbs 15:13

“Some people graduate with honors, but the best people graduate with wisdom.”

“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.” — Leonard Cohen

“Let your actions speak so loudly that your words mean nothing.”

“Every wise man was once a fool.”

“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”

“If it costs you your peace, it’s too expensive.”

“The first step to wisdom is silence; the second is listening.”

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”

“Let silence be your response to ignorance.”

“To be wise is to understand that you don’t know everything.”

“Growth and comfort do not coexist.” — Ginni Rometty

“Peace begins when expectations end.”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

“Speak less, listen more.”

“A wise man sees failure as a stepping stone.”

“Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.”

“Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.”

“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”

“Take criticism seriously, not personally.”

“What consumes your mind, controls your life.”

“A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”

“Be teachable. You’re not always right.”

“Your intuition is your soul speaking.”

“Do not be wise in words, be wise in deeds.”