Do you sometimes feel like you could use a bit of guidance in life? Or perhaps you just want some positive reinforcement and deep inspirational quotes? If so, look no further than wisdom quotes. Here, you can find the right words of wisdom to give your day a boost and to help you navigate the complexities of life. Whether you are looking for wise quotes to start your day off on the right foot or one to help you focus and stay motivated, you’ll find it here.
Best Wisdom Quotes
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. Henry David Thoreau
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. Maurice Switzer
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! Walter Scott
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform or pause and reflect. Mark Twain
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
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. Jess C. Scott
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. A. C. Benson
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. John Lennon
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. Audrey Hepburn
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. Mark Twain
Adopt the pace of nature her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson
May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift
Once you label me you negate me. Soren Kierkegaard
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. Omar N. Bradley
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein
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
Never laugh at live dragons. J.R.R. Tolkien
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act. Dr. Seuss
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. Paulo Coelho
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Rabindranath Tagore
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and Hope. Alexandre Dumas
Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland
Think before you speak. Read before you think. Fran Lebowitz
It is impossible to love and to be wise. Francis Bacon
The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back. Abigail Van Buren
If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be. Yogi Berra
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. Isaac Asimov
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. Paulo Coelho
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. Archimedes
There are three things all wise men fear the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. Patrick Rothfuss
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. J.R.R. Tolkien
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein
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. Confucious
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward
You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. Patrick Ness
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. Lucille Ball
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Martin Luther King Jr.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. Elbert Hubbard
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man given. Be grateful. Conceit is self given. Be careful. John Wooden
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. Satchel Paige
Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. Roy T. Bennett
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success or are they holding you back? W. Clement Stone
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke
Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think. Roy T. Bennett
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. Kahlil Gibran
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. Albert Einstein
That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. Albert Einstein
Commitment is an act, not a word. Jean Paul Sartre
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher
Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. Paulo Coelho
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. Walt Disney
The past has no power over the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley
The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. Franz Kafka
I’m not young enough to know everything. J.M. Barrie
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot
Don’t Gain The World Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold. Bob Marley
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Sharon Salzberg
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. Charles Dickens
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda
Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes. Rick Riordan
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. Thomas Paine
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. Bruce Lee
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. John C. Maxwell
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. Paulo Coelho
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done. Amelia Earhart
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. Confucius
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? John Keats
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. Maya Angelou
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy
Music is A higher revelation than all Wisdom Philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H.L. Mencken
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
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. Oscar Wilde
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. Margaret Drabble
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
All knowledge hurts. Cassandra Clare
Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. Oscar Wilde
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. Helen Keller
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Pablo Picasso
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don’t help them by doing the job yourself. Laurell K. Hamilton
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better. Marlo Thomas
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. Harper Lee
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. Ben Hogan
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles Schultz
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. Max de Pree
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. Patrick Rothfuss
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Sharon Salzberg
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. Stephen Hawking
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Sigmund Freud
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
Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. Alan Watts
If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Michael Jordan
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. Elizabeth Gaskell
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present. Joan Rivers
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Leo F. Buscaglia
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. Thomas Huxley
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut, that held its ground. David Icke
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Brian Tracy
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. Marcus Aurelius
Start wide, expand further, and never look back. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. Doug Larson
Time is a game played beautifully by children. Heraclitus
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. Elizabeth Bibesco
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
Talent is God given; be humble. Fame is man given; be thankful. Conceit is self given; be careful. Harvey Mackay
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise. George R.R. Martin
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. Marcus Aurelius
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. A.A. Milne
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Oscar Wilde
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. Ezra Taft Benson
Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that’s the result of a chance meeting too. You’re damned right. Drink up. We’ll have another. Charles Bukowski
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. Moliere
Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy. Rumi
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. Lord Byron
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. Michael Levine
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C. S. Lewis
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Sydney J. Harris
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. J.K. Rowling
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. John Lubbock
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. Jean de La Fontaine
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. Joseph Campbell
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. George Orwell