TOP 100 FAMOUS INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT WISDOM

TOP 100 FAMOUS INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT WISDOM 

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." – Aristotle

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

"Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." – Albert Einstein

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

"Wisdom begins in wonder." – Socrates

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." – Charles Dickens

"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." – Lao Tzu

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." – Jimi Hendrix

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." – Seneca

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." – Doug Larson

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought." – Matsuo Basho

"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." – Thomas J. Watson

"Patience is the companion of wisdom." – Saint Augustine

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them." – Paulo Coelho

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." – Sophocles

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." – Jean Paul

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." – Bertrand Russell

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." – David Starr Jordan

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." – Bruce Lee

"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened." – Lao Tzu

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering." – Aeschylus

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." – Napoleon Bonaparte

"Cleverness is not wisdom." – Euripides

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience." – Leonardo da Vinci

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

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." – William Shakespeare

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." – Socrates

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

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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

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

"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future." – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally." – Niccolo Machiavelli

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth." – Sophocles

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one's last is to come to terms with everything." – Georg C. Lichtenberg

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." – Francis Bacon

"We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom." – Michel de Montaigne

"Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it." – M.H. McKee

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone." – Horace

"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart." – Jonathan Swift

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

"Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity." – Brian Rathbone

"The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances." – Atisa

"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values." – Sidney Hook

"To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom." – Bertrand Russell

"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it." – Doug Larson

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses." – William Arthur Ward

"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words." – Sophocles

"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." – Norman Cousins

"The wise does at once what the fool does at last." – Baltasar Gracián

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook." – William James

"Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain." – Robert Gary Lee

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." – Elbert Hubbard

"Wisdom comes by disillusionment." – George Santayana

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." – Miles Kington

"Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul." – William Hazlitt

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." – H.L. Mencken

"A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own." – Latin Proverb

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge." – Charles Spurgeon

"Some folks are wise and some are otherwise." – Tobias Smollett

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." – Albert Einstein

"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise." – Paul Engle

"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side." – Jane Austen

"Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself." – Tom Wilson

"A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows public opinion." – Chinese Proverb

"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew." – Herb Caen

"Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the principles of all things as derived from God, as well as the illumination and direction of human actions." – Hugo Grotius

"Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age." – Ecclesiasticus

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom." – Lao Tzu

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." – Immanuel Kant

"The essence of wisdom is to know what is to be overlooked." – William James

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

"The wise man has long ears and a short tongue." – German Proverb

"A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it." – Chinese Proverb

"Wisdom sails with wind and time." – John Florio

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Wisdom is better than rubies." – Proverbs 8:11

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." – Cicero

"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents." – Khalil Gibran

"Wisdom is found only in truth." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." – Zhuangzi

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The wise know they are fools." – William Shakespeare

"Wisdom is the virtue that is mother of all other virtues." – Cicero

"The older I get, the more I realize how true that saying is: the less said, the better." – Benjamin Franklin

"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom." – Thomas Huxley

"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself." – Khalil Gibran

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." – David Starr Jordan

"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time." – Theodore Roosevelt

"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can." – Michel de Montaigne

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." – Sophocles

"Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child." – Ron Wild

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." – Epictetus

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience." – Leonardo da Vinci

"The best words of wisdom will create confusion, action and life." – Jeremy Aldana

"Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech." – Evangelista Silva