100 Wisdom Quotes that Reveal Life’s Truths
Aging like fine wine—wisdom comes with time. Get inspired by these Wisdom Quotes and make the very best out of your life.
In a world brimming with constant change and fleeting moments, inding wisdom can help us navigate life’s ups and downs. Wisdom quotes capture the essence of what we’ve learned from past experiences and offer valuable advice. They provide guidance, inspiration, and a moment of reflection. Whether you need clarity, motivation, or just a thoughtful pause, these wisdom quotes are here to brighten your journey.
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Wisdom Quotes
- “Don’t live the same day over and over again. Make a change TODAY. ” ~ Invajy
- “Life is difficult because… we don’t appreciate the things that come easily.” ~ Invajy
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life teaches you a new lesson every day, if you are attentive enough in the class of life.” ~ Invajy
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
- “When the going gets rough – turn to wonder.” ~ Parker Palmer
- “Waking up early is always beneficial… be it from sleep or ego or delusion.” ~ Invajy
- “Well done is better than well said.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” ~ Aristotle
- “Where expectations end… peace begins there” ~ Invajy
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Nelson Mandela
Wisdom Beyond Knowledge
- “Wisdom is not a gift of age, but a reflection of the choices we make, the paths we choose, and the resilience with which we face life’s challenges.” ~ Invajy
- “Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “True wisdom is not about ‘all-knowing’, but knowing that there is always more to learn.” ~ Invajy
- “Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.” ~ Paul Engle
- “Knowledge is love and light and vision.” ~ Helen Keller
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ~ Socrates
- “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” ~ Margaret Fuller
- “We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.” ~ Mary Catherine Bateson
- “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” ~ Lao Tzu
- “Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.” ~ Proverb
- “Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.” ~ Ojibwe Prayer
- “Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.” ~ Pope Francis
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” ~ James Cameron
- “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” ~ John Lennon
- “He that can compose himself is wiser than he that composes books.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ~ Herman Melville
The Wisest Quotes on Wisdom
- “Wisdom comes alone through suffering.” ~ Aeschylus
- “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Wisdom begins at the end.” ~ Daniel Webster
- “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” ~ Confucius
- “Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.” ~ William Saroyan
- “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” ~ Socrates
- “Wisdom at times is found in folly.” ~ Horace
- “The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dearly for it.” ~ Dutch Proverb
- “Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
- “All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
- “There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” ~ Hermann Hesse
- “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.” ~ Buddha
- “Wisdom can’t be acquired simply through reading books; knowledge is one thing, wisdom quite another.” ~ Anonymous
- “It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Powerful Qisdom Quotes
- “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my path.” ~ Psalm 119:105
- “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Be wise like serpents and harmless like doves.” ~ Matthew 10:16
- “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” ~ Marcel Pagnol
- “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” ~ Marie Curie
- “The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.” ~ Susan B. Anthony
- “Belief and hope don’t make goals easy… but make them possible.” ~ Invajy
- “When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Poor eyes limit your sight; poor vision limits your deeds.” ~ Franklin Field
- “I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help him.” ~ Hudson Taylor
- “The wise person doesn’t give the right answers, but poses the right questions.” ~ Claude Levi-Strauss
- “What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.” ~ Ellen Glasgow
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ~ Lao Tzu
- “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” ~ Chinese Proverb
- “Perhaps instead of bombarding God with requests for what is not, we might try, instead, asking God to open our eyes to see what is.” ~ Margaret Silf
- “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton
- “Speak less, say more.” ~ Anonymous
- “If people aren’t calling you crazy, you aren’t thinking big enough.” ~ Richard Branson
Wisdom Quotes on Life
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ~ Mark Twain
- “It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.” ~ Barbra Jordan
- “A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it were real, so he escapes suffering”. ~ Buddha
- “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
- “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Failing to attempt is biggest failure of life.” ~ Invajy
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”~ Babe Ruth
- “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” ~ Confucius
- “Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.” ~ Anonymous
- “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” ~ Sheryl Sandberg
- “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” ~ Chris Grosser
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” ~ Henry Ford
- “Impossible is just an opinion.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “No man was ever wise by chance.” ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “Never did nature say one thing and wisdom another.” ~ Edmund Burke
- “The wisest of the wise may err.” ~ Aeschylus
- “The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility: and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
