Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom is defined as the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgements. Wisdom is a constant process. No matter how much you know, there’s something out there left to learn — that’s what the wise would say, anyway.
In this article, we have compiled a collection of powerful ancient wisdom quotes and sayings. Read through and share with your friends and loved ones, these wise words will sink into your brain and inspire you and your loved ones to change your lives for good.
75 Powerful Wisdom Quotes And Sayings
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” Oliver Wendall Holmes
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” Jimi Hendrix
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” Socrates
You may not have very much sense. But if you have enough to keep your mouth shut and look wise, it will not be long before you acquire a wide reputation as a fountain of Wisdom.~~ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools.~~WELLINS CALCOTT
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: The music is nothing if the audience is deaf.~WALTER LIPPMANN
“It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing things, but seeing through things.” Manly P. Hall
“Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.” Anonymous
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” Immanuel Kant
“Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.” Ron Wild
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” Albert Einstein
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”― Aristotle
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”― Socrates
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”― Isaac Asimov
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
” Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.”― Alexandre Dumas
” Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.”― Alexandre Dumas
“Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.” Anonymous
“The older you get, the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realize how much nonsense you’ve waste time on.” Anonymous
“It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” Henry David Thoreau
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” Oprah Winfrey
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
~Greek Proverb
~Greek Proverb
Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools , because they have to say something ~Plato
The difference between a wise and foolish man is this–the former sees much, thinks much, and speaks little; but the latter speaks more than he either sees or thinks.~WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― Paulo Coelho
― Paulo Coelho
An intelligent man believes only half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.~EVAN ESAR
“Wisdom is knowledge that is guided by understanding; we have to have the wisdom and the knowledge to understand why certain things happen in our lives and trust that God will lead us over any obstacles that comes in our way.” Anonymous
“Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom say another.” Edmund Burke
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” Anonymous
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” Francis Bacon
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” Bertrand Russell
Attract what you expect, reflect what you desire, become what you respect, mirror what you admire.
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”― Patrick Rothfuss
“Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their heads turned up way too loud to hear it” – Brian Vaszily
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Miguel de Cervantes
Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.~AUSTIN O’MALLEY
Wisdom comes only through suffering.~~AESCHYLUS
“Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” Zen Proverb
“A wise owl sat on an oak, the more he saw the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard. Why aren’t we like the wise old bird?” Charles M Schulz
“The door to wisdom is knowing yourself.” Anonymous
Don’t promise when you are happy. Don’t reply when you’re angry and don’t decide when you are sad.
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish…. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.~HERMANN HESSE
“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.”― Confucious
“Angry people are not always wise.”― Jane Austen
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”― Rumi
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
~~SOPHOCLES
~~SOPHOCLES
Running away from your problems is a race you’ll never win.
Look about, my son, and see how little wisdom it takes to govern the world.~~AXEL OXENSTIERNA
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” Charles Dickens
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.” Charles Spurgeon
“Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.” Anthony Douglas Williams
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.~~CHARLES DICKENS
Wisdom is a treasure, the key whereof is never lost.~~EDWARD COUNSEL
Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not able to tell the difference.~Mark Twain
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
~DOUG LARSON
~DOUG LARSON
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.~CHARLES CALEB COLTON
“The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.” Ivan Panin
“Happy is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding.” Anonymous
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
“Honesty is the first book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson
“If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.” Holly Near
When looking for wise words, the best ones often come from our elders. Catherine Pulsifer
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” Saint Augustine
“Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.” Debbie Ford
You’ve heard that it’s wise to learn from experience, but it is wiser to learn from the experience of others. Rick Warren
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” George Bernard Shaw
“Let your actions demonstrate your wisdom.”
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”― William Shakespeare
“Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.” Anonymous
“When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.” Thomas A Kempis
Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. Lord Chesterfield