Wisdom Quotes That Will Inspire You

  1. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. Sandra Carey
  2. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. Cato, Roman censor
  3. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim
  4. Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. Merry Browne
  5. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller
  6. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  7. Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. David Starr Jordan
  8. Wisdom is supreme, therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have – get understanding.
  9. If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. William Penn
  10. The heart is wiser than the intellect. G. Holland
  11. Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That “still small voice” is yearning to be heard. Susan Jeffers
  12. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again and that is well; but also, she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. Mark Twain
  13. The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit and push you along the path of human excellence. Tony Robbins
  14. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson
  15. Seek the wisdom of the ages but look at the world through the eyes of a child. Ron Wild
  16. I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday. Abraham Lincoln
  17. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. General Omar Bradley
  18. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach
  19. Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.” Ralph C. Smedley
  20. Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life. Brigham Young
  21. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. General Omar Bradley
  22. The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle
  23. Wisdom is supreme; therefore, make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your; embrace her and she will honor you.
  24. The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Steven Covey
  25. Enlightenment is the “quiet acceptance of what is” I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are. Wayne Dyer
  26. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. Socrates

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