Wisdom Quotes

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“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”
-Herb Caen

“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.”
-Publilius Syrus

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
-Isaac Asimov

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
-Groucho Marx

“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
-Jimi Hendrix

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Wisdom is knowing we are all One. Love is what it feels like and compassion is what it acts like.”
-Ethan Walker III

“As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color and fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.”
– Buddha

“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

–Eden Phillpotts

“You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You’re confusing courage with wisdom.”

– Unknown

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
 – Pema Chödrön

“If you seek peace, be still. If you seek wisdom, be silent. If you seek love, be yourself.”
– Becca Lee

“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
– Lucille Ball

“Listen carefully. The answers to our deepest questions are often whispered.”
—Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Like a deer that finds a quiet place to graze, seek seclusion to digest all that you have gathered.

– Ancient Tibetan text

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
—Carl Sagan

“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

“Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.”
—Anthony Douglas Williams

“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”
—Jon Kabat-Ziin

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
-Aeschylus

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
-Saint Augustine

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”
-David Starr Jordan

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
-Sandra Carey

“We should cultivate the ability to say no to activities for which we have no interest or real concern. If we learn to say no to many things, then we will be able to say yes to the things that matter most. ”
-Roy Blauss

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
– Epictetus

“The traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep.”
– Margaret Mead

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
—John R. Wooden

“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”

– Sophocles

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”
– Neil Armstrong

“Wise men don’t judge – they seek to understand.”
 – Wei Wu Wei

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.”
—Stephen R. Covey

“There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.”
—Sir David Attenborough

“There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”
—Mandy Hale

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
—Jalal ad-Din Rumi

“When in doubt, don’t.”

– Benjamin Franklin

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
—George Bernard Shaw

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
—Socrates

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
-Paulo Coelho

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
-Henry David Thoreau

“When you know better you do better.”
-Maya Angelou

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
-Oprah Winfrey

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
-Aristotle

“No man was ever wise by chance.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
-Francis Bacon

“It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

“What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.”
— Warren Buffett

“Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
—Jim Henson

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.”

-Washington Irving

“Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.”
 – Zen Proverb

“Wisdom Isn’t Wisdom Until It Is Shared.”
– Patrick Mosher

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Wisdom is sweeter than honey, brings more joy than wine, illumines more than the sun, is more precious than jewels.”

– Queen of Sheba

“There is no greater wisdom than kindness.”

– Thomas Kinkade

“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”
—Albert Einstein

“You know the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing you don’t put tomato in a fruit salad.”
—Miles Kington

“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.”
– Colette

“It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing things, but seeing through things.”
—Manly P. Hall

“The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.”
—William James