Wisdom Quotes

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

Meditation brings wisdom – lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Buddha

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Grief should be the instructor of the wise. Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest.
Lord Byron

Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.
Eileen Caddy

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
Liz Carpenter

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds most grow.
Rachel Carson

Contemplation is the root of awareness and creativity.
Sandra Chantry

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Confucius

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don’t know – that is real wisdom.
Confucius

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
Will Durant

Trusting yourself is trusting the wisdom that created you.
Wayne Dyer

Life is a festival only to the wise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge a man’s wisdom by his hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France

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

How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
Hakuin

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Robert A. Heinlein

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

Gratitude is a form of wisdom. It is patient, loving, hopeful, and rigorously honest. It denies nothing, and it overlooks nothing. It looks reality full in the face and says: This is true, this is me, this is my situation, and I have the opportunity to build from here. This is my starting point, and I will succeed!
Phil Humbert

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

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan

Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

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

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao Tzu

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

Absorb what is useful, disregard the rest.
Bruce Lee

The more I see, the less I know for sure.
John Lennon

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Henry Miller

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Keshavan Nair

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changes, courage to change the things that can be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie Parker

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.
Wilferd Peterson

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust

A fool wonders, the wise man wanders.
Susan Rea

Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating – the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to – you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.
Sogyal Rinpoche

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Merle Shain

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

Wisdom begins with wonder. Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
Mark Twain

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain’t so.
Mark Twain

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Mark Twain

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.
Marianne Williamson

Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey

If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together…there is something you must remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart…I'll always be with you.
Winnie the Pooh

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats