81 Wisdom Quotes to Make You Wiser and Intelligent Last updated on May 20, 2024
20 Wise Quotes That Will Inspire You to Succeed Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ― Lao Tzu Self-Improvement and success go hand in hand. Taking the steps to make yourself a better and more well-rounded individual will prove to be a wise decision. ― Frank Long It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ― Aristotle Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. ― Aristotle The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. ― Confucius
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ― Immanuel Kant Doubt is the origin of wisdom. ― Augustine of Hippo Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. ― Marcus Aurelius The 3 C’s of Life: Choices, Chances, Changes. You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change. ― Zig Ziglar The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ― Socrates
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. ― Wayne Dyer Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. ― Plato The greatest wealth is to live content with little. ― Plato Don't waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear. ― Paulo Coelho A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. ― William Shakespeare It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ― Seneca In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ― Sun Tzu
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. ― Friedrich Nietzsche A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ― Ayn Rand Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ― John Wooden Words of Wisdom: 61 Wise Quotes About Life, Love, Change, and Growth Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ― Aldous Huxley Happiness and freedom begin with one principle. Some things are within your control and some are not. ― Epictetus The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. ― Napoleon Bonaparte Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ― Seneca You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results. ― Mahatma Gandhi The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ― Thomas Stephen Szasz Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly. ― Plutarch
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn. ― Ayn Rand Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. ― Albert Einstein Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. ― Zen Proverb Pain can change you, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom. ― Dalai Lama XIV The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Do Not Be Wise in Words. Be Wise in Deeds. ― Jewish Proverb Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. ― Ron Wild Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ― Sandra Carey When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. ― Elon Musk To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ― Marilyn vos Savant
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. ― Francis Bacon It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Think before you speak. Read before you think. ― Fran Lebowitz It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. ― Epictetus Wisdom sails with wind and time. ― John Florio Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim. ― John D. Rockefeller Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. ― Viktor Frankl A symptom of wisdom is curiosity. The evidence is calmness and perseverance. The causes are experimentation and understanding. ― Maxime Lagacé If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. ― Nelson Mandela Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. ― Isaac Asimov
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 Life isn’t about finding yourself; it’s about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined. ― Henry David Thoreau Never say 'no' twice, if you mean it. ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. ― Albert Einstein The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ― Mark Twain Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. ― Martin Luther King Jr. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. ― Leonard Nimoy Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ― Thomas Jefferson The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ― Vince Lombardi Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own. ― Bruce Lee
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. ― Thomas W. Moore Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. ― Benjamin Disraeli Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ― Steve Jobs Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. ― Horace Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute. ― Zig Ziglar When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective. ― George C. Marshall Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. ― J.K. Rowling All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. ― Robin Sharma Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. ― Thomas J. Watson I know that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen. ― James Clear
It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands. ― Keanu Reeves The more we learn, the more we discover how much we do not know. ― Yoda The fool wonders, the wise man asks. ― Benjamin Disraeli Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ― Archimedes Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ― Judy Garland The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. ― John Burroughs Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ― Carl Jung 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 Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ― George Bernard Shaw The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. ― Paulo Coelho Turn your wounds into wisdom. ― Oprah Winfrey You’ve heard that it’s wise to learn from experience, but it is wiser to learn from the experience of others. ― Rick Warren In most aspects of life, try to find the thing you can go all in on with compound interest. ― Naval Ravikant Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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