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Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Wisdom

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It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

~Maurice Switzer (or Abraham Lincoln)

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

~Elbert Hubbard

We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.

~Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom begins at the end.

~Daniel Webster

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

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

~William Shakespeare

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

~St. Augustine

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

~Doug Larson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

~David Star Jordan

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

~Mary Wilson Little

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

~Tom Wilson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

~Mark Twain

How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

~Bill Veeck

The years teach much which the days never knew.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange — my youth.

~Sara Teasdale

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

~Aristotle

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~Isaac Asimov

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

~Juvenal

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

~Author Unknown

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

~John Buchan

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

~Socrates

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

~A.A. Hodge

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

~Author Unknown

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

~Chinese Proverb

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

~Norman Cousins

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~Isaac Asimov

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

~James Gibbons Huneker

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

~George Santayana

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

~Doug Larson

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

~Tobias Smollett

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

~William Wordsworth

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

~William Cowper

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

~Sophocles

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.

~Lemuel K. Washburn

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

~Robert Brault

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

~East African Proverb

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

~John Lennon

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

~William Shakespeare

One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.

~Edward C. Steadman

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

~William James

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

~François VI de la Rochefoucault

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

~Bertolt Brecht

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

~Aristotle

Mothers, teach your children this. Teach your children that Wisdom is everywhere. In pieces. Some of the Wisdom is in the trees, some of the Wisdom is with the animals. Some of the Wisdom is with the planets and the stars and the moons and the sun. Some of the Wisdom flows with the waters. Some of the Wisdom was with our ancestors. Some of the Wisdom is in our minds. All of the Wisdom is from the Spirit of God.

~Esther Davis-Thompson

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

~Zen Proverb

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

~François VI de la Rochefoucault

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

~Josh Billings

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

~Robert Brault

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

~Mehmet Murat ildan

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

~Paulo Coelho

The child, offered the mother’s breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom’s copious breasts
You’ll drink each day with greater zest.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

~Martin H. Fischer

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

~Herb Caen

There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart.

~Charles Dickens

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

~Oprah Winfrey

No man was ever wise by chance.

~Seneca

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

~George Bernard Shaw

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love the life you live.
live the life you love.

~Bob Marley

I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

~John Steinbeck

It’s the imperfections that make things beautiful

~Jenny Han

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. ~JK Rowling

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

~Tom Hiddleston

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

~Bruce Lee

I’ve always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place

~Taylor Swift

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Yelling doesn’t get your point across, it only makes it louder.

~Grant Hill

I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.

~Marlon Brando

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

~Dr. Seuss

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

~Oscar Wilde

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

~Albert Einstein

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

~Mahatma Gandhi

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

~Mark Twain

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

~Oscar Wilde

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

~Martin Luther King Jr.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

~Tony Robbins

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.

~Sheryl Sandberg

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.

~ Marissa Mayer

If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

~DonaldTrump

Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.

~Chinese proverb

You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don’t play at all. And if you don’t play you can’t win.

~Judith McNaught

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

~Mario Andretti

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

~Oprah Winfrey

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

~ Denis Waitley

Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

~Jimmy Carter

The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

~Deepak Chopra

Do one thing every day that scares you.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

~Bill Cosby

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

~Steve Jobs

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

~Jim Rohn

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

~Aristotle

If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

~Dhirubhai Ambani

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.

~Kanye West

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

~Mark Caine

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.

~Deepak Chopra

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

~Steve Jobs

Leap and the net will appear.

~Zen Saying

I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous.

~Sidney Crosby

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

~John A. Shedd

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.

~Tim Ferriss

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

~Michael Jordan

Your dreams are ballbusters; they’re not the yellow brick road.

~Kelly Cutrone

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

~Ellen DeGeneres

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. — Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

~Annie Dillard

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

~Lao Tzu

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

~T. S. Eliot

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

~George Eliot

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.

~Andre Malraux

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

~J.K. Rowling

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

~Chinese Proverb

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.

~Jack Canfield

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

~Mark Twain

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

~George Addair

Screw it, Let’s do it!

~Richard Branson

You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

~Marissa Mayer

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.

~Billy Wilder

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.

~Albert Einstein

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

~Iveta Cherneva

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~Anais Nin

Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting.

~Karl Wallenda

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

~Ayn Rand