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Wisdom Quotes and Sayings
Some wonderful wisdom quotes and sayings for a great day :)
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James
“What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.” – The Buddha
“The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt
“No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less.” – Edgar Watson Howe
“A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb
“Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.” – Aaron Levenstein
“Years teach us more than books.” – Berthold Auerbach
“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” – Solomon Ibn Gabriol
“The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.” – Confucius
“No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca
“Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson
“If you try you may fail, if you don’t try you’re guaranteed to fail.” – Jesse Jackson
“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” – Leo Aikman
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” –Theodore Roosevelt
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” – Betty Smith
“Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.” – Elbert Hubbard
“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.” – Chinese Proverb
“Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll need them on your way down.” – W. Migner
“There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” – James Thurber
“Wisdom is found only in truth.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.” – Lao Tzu
“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” –Janis Joplin
Wisdom Quotes by Famous People
“The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”-Oscar Wilde
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it”-Albert Einstein
“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”-Charles Dickens
“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”-Victor Hugo
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”-Socrates
“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”-Friedrich Nietzsche
“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.”- Alex Noble
“He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.”- Lao Tze
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”- Baltasar Gracian
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.”-Thomas Jefferson
“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.”-Michael Gerber
“Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.”- George Burns
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”-Sandara Carey
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”- George Bernard Shaw
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”- Confucius
“Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!”- Kalidasa
“Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.”-Dr. James Dobson
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”- Lin Yutang
“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”-Nathaniel Hawthorne
“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.”- Mohandas K. Gandhi
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”-Walter Lippman
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”- Robert Green Ingersoll
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”-Sophocles
Words of Wisdom
– “Nature and wisdom never are at strife.” – Plutarch
– “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld
– “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James
– “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” – Solomon Ibn Gabriol
– “Years teach us more than books.” – Berthold Auerbach
– “The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.” – William Penn
– “The middle course is the best.” – Cleobulus
– “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” – Thomas Huxley
– “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb
– “Silence does not always mark wisdom.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
– “No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca
– “Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.” – John Milton
– “By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.” – Menander
– “The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt
– “Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson
– “The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” – Catherine the Great
– “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
– “One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.” – Alexander Chase
– “How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!” – Homer
– “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young
– “The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.” – Confucius