Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. — Sophocles
Better a drop of wisdom than an ocean of gold — Greek Proverbs
Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you; embrace her and she will honor you. — Bible
True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people. — Kiana Tom
Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides — Carl Jung
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. — Theodore Roosevelt
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. — Francis Hutcheson
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. — Akhenaton
Wisdom is better than weapons of war. 9:18b, Ecclesiastes — Bible
And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience — Leonardo da Vinci
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation. — Demosthenes
Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. — Chuck Smith
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding. — Bible
The wisest have the most authority. — Plato
Top 10 Wise Wisdom Quotes
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness. — Ibn Taymiyyah
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. — Socrates
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ? — Gene Wilder
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him. — Al-Shafi‘i
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned" — Al-Ghazali
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right. — Ravi Zacharias
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Wise Words Of Wisdom Quotes
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. — Aristotle
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat. — Paulo Coelho
You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea. — Yasmin Mogahed
Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.
Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others. — Gorgias
A small act is worth a million thoughts. — Ai Weiwei
If you chase two rabbits,
you catch none. — Confucius
The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside. — Tenzin Palmo
Wise Man Wisdom Quotes
Put aside your pride,
Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. — Otto von Bismarck
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God. — Leonard Ravenhill
A fool may earn money, but it takes a wise man to keep it. — Scottish Proverbs
Fools live to regret their words, the wise regret their silence.
A wise man doesn’t see his foot on the ground, he watches his next step. — Filipino Proverbs
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. — Solomon
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession. — Lao Tzu
Wise Quotes
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi
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. — Charles Spurgeon
A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Fools take the knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord and free themselves from the fools.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything. — African Proverbs
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — Joseph Campbell
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. — Thomas S. Monson
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. — Bill Nye
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. — Edward R. Murrow
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. — Charles Bukowski
Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. — Hesiod
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be. — Dale Carnegie
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Very Wise Quotes
Those who take the lead take it by doing three things. First, science to be able to manoeuvre; second, knowledge to be able to heavily invest in education; and third, a very wise leadership with a clear vision and a roadmap to the right direction. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember. — George Carlin
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice? — Bette Midler
To admit you were wrong is to declare you are wiser now than before.
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny. — Joseph Campbell
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did. — Christine de Pizan
A wise person knows that there is something to be learned from everyone.
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' — John Abbott
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first. — Audrey Hepburn
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. — Samuel Johnson
Wise Life Quotes
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. — Viktor E. Frankl
Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. — Carol S. Dweck
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. — C. S. Lewis
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. — Bob Proctor
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. — Joseph Addison
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. — Sonia Sotomayor
If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer. — Huldrych Zwingli
Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed. — Saadi Shirazi
There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask. — George Jones
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. — Hafez
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? — David Livingstone
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. — Kahlil Gibran
If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys. — Chief Dan George
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker
Spiritual Wisdom Quotes
People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. — Albert Einstein
Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house. — Shams Tabrizi
At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing? — Mooji
All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all. — Mooji
The real work is in the Heart:
Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
Then it needs no Friend. — Rabia Basri
If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it. — Mooji
How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me! — Elizabeth of Hungary
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. — Hafez
True Wisdom Quotes
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. — Socrates
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa
If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once. — Tupac Shakur
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. — Socrates
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. — Ivan Panin
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth. — Jagadish Chandra Bose
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.
So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.
But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge. — Ramakrishna
The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations. — Haile Selassie
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. — Abraham Lincoln
Life Wisdom Quotes
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. — Queen Elizabeth II
I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. — Emiliano Zapata
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. — Immanuel Kant
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. — C. S. Lewis
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. — Albert Einstein
In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here. — Mooji
Let me tell you how to love all equally. Do not demand anything of those you love. If you make demands, some will give you more and some less. In that case you will love more those who give you more and less those who give you less. Thus your love will not be the same for all. You will not be able to love all impartially. — Sarada Devi
The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them. — Lao Tzu
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day. — Edgar Cayce
God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world. — Antonin Scalia
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. — E. O. Wilson
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