Top 50 Wisdom Quotes
1. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates
2. Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. – Zen Proverb
3. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Wise is the one who is choosy with associates, for a friendship with a fool can be a costly affair. – John Soforic
5. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. – Albert Einstein
6. Live simply so others may simply live. – Mother Teresa
7. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
8. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy
9. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
10. How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. – Wayne Dyer
11. I realized that intimidation didn’t really exist if you’re in the right frame of mind. – Kobe Bryant
12. In most aspects of life, try to find the thing you can go all in on with compound interest. – Naval Ravikant
13. Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there no longer any ‘if’ or ‘but’. – Napoleon Bonaparte
14. Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, and have no energy and creativity in. – Robert Greene
15. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. – Paulo Coelho
16. Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim. – John D. Rockefeller
17. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
18. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. – Immanuel Kant
19. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. – C.S. Lewis
20. Learn how to take criticism seriously but not personally. – Hillary Clinton
21. Turn your wounds into wisdom. – Oprah Winfrey
22. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
23. You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. – Friedrich Nietzsche
24. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
25. A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes. – Mahatma Gandhi
26. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Martin Luther King Jr.
27. The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. – Vince Lombardi
28. If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. – Barack Obama
29. Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. – Benjamin Disraeli
30. To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often. – Winston Churchill
31. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
32. It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things. – Angela Duckworth
33. He who wants a rose must respect her thorn. – Andre Gide
34. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. – Robin Sharma
35. I know that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen. – James Clear
36. There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period. – Brene Brown
37. Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. – Leo Buscaglia
38. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle
39. The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. – Confucius
40. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu
41. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. – Seneca
42. The greatest wealth is to live content with little. – Plato
43. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius
44. In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. – Sun Tzu
45. Happiness and freedom begin with one principle. Some things are within your control and some are not. – Epictetus
46. Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly. – Plutarch
47. Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in few. – Pythagoras
48. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all. – Ovid
49. So in everything, do to others as you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. – Jesus Christ
50. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. – Sandra Carey
