An individual can have great brain power and lots of information, but still fail to succeed. Knowledge and information by themselves are not enough. You need to have wisdom and learn from others’ experiences of failure and success to apply those learnings to your own life. These wise quotes reveal why wisdom is important at all stages of life.
Wise Quotes About Life…
Being wise is different from gathering knowledge. Wisdom is a virtue but it requires time and patience and a general approach to life versus trying to get one specific thing. Once you start to develop a wise approach to your own life, you will be on the path to your own personal wisdom.
A truly wise person has higher standards and great character. The below Wise quotes from the exceptional people will help you on your journey.
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1.“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” – Plato
2.“A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.” – Minna Antrim
3.“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare
4.“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee
5.“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin
6.“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” – George Bernard Shaw
7.“A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.” – Jeff Cooper
8.“A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion.” – Grantland Rice
9.“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” – Aristotle
10.“Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.” – Benjamin Franklin
11.“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.” – William Shakespeare
12.“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” – William Blake
13.“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.” – H. G. Wells
14.“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
15.“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein
16.“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
17.“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” – Roy T. Bennett
18.“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.” – Horace
19.“That’s the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they’re far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.” – Gemma Burgess
20.“They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.” – Anton Chekhov
21.“It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don’t know about you, but I make plenty. You can’t turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.” – Mel Gibson
22.“I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.” – Sonia Sotomayor
23.“We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.” – Maya Angelou
24.“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” – Benjamin Franklin
25.“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
26.“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” – William James
27.“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.” – Napoleon Hill
28.“The mark of a wise person isn’t never making mistakes – everyone makes plenty of them. Rather, it’s the ability to quickly admit – and fix – them! ” – Whitney Tilson
29.“A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.” – Saul Bellow
30.“For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.” – Lao Tzu
31.“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
32.“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.” – Alan Alda
33.“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” – Thomas Szasz
34.“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.” – Matsuo Basho
35.“You can be very wild and still be very wise.” – Yoko Ono
36.“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” – Alfred North Whitehead
37.“A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn’t implement any of it.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
38.“Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.” – Criss Jami
39.“Wisdom comes from reflection.” – Deborah Day
40.“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.” – Suzy Kassem
41.“A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.” – Vera Nazarian
42.“Wise are those who keep asking questions when everyone around them think they know the answers.” – J. Bartell
43.“It is wise to admit one’s wrongs because it creates room for correction.” – Gift Gugu Mona
44.“Wisdom evolves, but one core principle in it does not. It is the principle of becoming better, by demolishing the shortcomings of today and building the benefits of tomorrow.” – Abhijit Naskar
45.“The wisest thing to do in order to be happy is to believe & trust in God! Alleluia! Amen! ” – Melvyn M. Lusterio
46.“Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Him.” – indonesia123
47.“It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
48.“A wise man lays up treasures in the Kingdom of our Father, so as to live a happy eternal life.” – Sunday Adelaja
49.“Be wiser than other people if you can. But do not tell them so.” – Earl Chesterfield
50.“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Abraham Lincoln
51.“Time ripens all things, no man is born wise.” – Miguel de Cervantes
52.“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
53.“The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.” – Unknown
54.“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
55.“Sometimes it’s wiser to be right in silence.” – Maya Angelou
56.“A wise person once said, “Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you.” – Unknown
57.“I have yet to meet a wise person who doesn’t know how to find some joy even in the midst of what is hard, and to smile and laugh easily, including at oneself.” – Krista Tippett
58.“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
59.“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
60.“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” – John C. Maxwell
61.“You can resolve any situation with wisdom.” – Sunday Adelaja
62.“Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
63.“A good friend is precious, even more precious is a wise good friend.” – V. Ashiedu
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64.“The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.” – Buddha
65.“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.” – Baltasar Gracian
66.“A man doesn’t begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.” – Richard E. Byrd
67.“When you start to choose faith then a power will flow into your life, it will give you the wisdom to sit down with a loved one and have a heart to heart instead of letting the relationship fall apart.” – Rev J Martin
68.“Every time you seek the best for yourself, every time you fight for what you want, you are also building strength of character and gaining wisdom.” – Kate Anderson
69.“Wisdom can be defined as the ability to anticipate the consequences of your choices in advance of making them.” – Jenny Rogers
70.“Push back your own thoughts and ideas and allow room for God’s Word and wisdom to fill you, so that you are able to be used in a mighty way.” – Dawna Hetzler
71.“Garner wisdom from others’ life lessons.” – Carolyn Denise Owens
72.“Wisdom is wisdom whether old or new it is fitting for everyone for me and for you.” – Anne Wilson Schaef
73.“A wise man is humble, knowing he actually doesn’t know much.” – Eraldo Banovac
74.“The absence of wisdom is the absence of other’s experience and insights from life.” – Louis Howard
75.“The wisdom of others can ignite your passion, uplift your spirit, and motivate you to reach your full potential.” – Melissa Eshleman
76.“Wisdom comes from experience, from making mistakes and learning from them.” – Catherine Pulsifer
77.“When we seek wisdom from God for the purpose of overcoming trials, he gives it to us liberally and without scorn.” – K. M. Logan
78.“Wisdom is knowing how to properly handle the information and knowledge we have, especially when it comes to relationships.” – K. P. Yohannan
79.“Everyone roams in darkness; A wise always find the light.” – Iraniya Naynesh
80.“The foundation of wisdom is knowing how to tell when you are totally clueless, lost, and in need of assistance.” – A.E. Samaan
81.“It is better to be foolish wise than wise foolish.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
82.“A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.” – Mohith Agadi
83.“We live in a blatantly corrupt world and smart people engage in the wise practice of risk management.” – Steven Magee
84.“To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.” – Will Advise
85.“Wisdom solves almost anything.” – Sunday Adelaja
86. “The truth is more important than the facts.” – Mother Teresa
87.“Dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.” – Oprah Winfrey
88.“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Anna Quindlen
89.“Any fool can break something, criticize someone and tear things apart. It takes a far more skilled, wise and kind soul to build something, nurture someone, fix things and help others thrive over time.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
90.“Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
91.“A wise man doesn’t start what he doesn’t know to do.” – Eraldo Banovac
92.“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” – Hillary Clinton
93.“Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward.” – Thomas A. Edison
94.“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Katie Couric
95.“Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidity. Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity.” – Munia Khan
96.“It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly.” – Nabil N. Jamal
97.“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” – Serenity Prayer
98.“Great acts are made up of small deeds.” – Amelia Earhart
99.“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.” – Ellen DeGeneres
100.“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.” – Seneca
101.“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” – Unknown
102.“Don’t be afraid to be weird for being wise.” – Craig Groeschel
103.“The truth is, we can find wisdom and inspiration from many different people and places; we just need to be looking for it.” – Mike Robbins
104.“Words and actions will separate a wise man from the crowd.” – Bamigboye Olurotimi
105.“Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings; it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
106.“What a wise man knows, therefore, is how to construct a pattern that, given the human situation, is likely to lead to a good life.” – H.W. Charles
107.“A wise man nourishes his soul each morning with the word of God and enriches his day with God’s wisdom. Psalm 19:7.” – Felix Wantang
108.“A word from the wise – from those who have had experience in life – is far more valuable than many realize. If we are wise we will take it and make use of it, thus saving ourselves much time and grief.” – Dorothea S. Kopplin
109.“Once upon a time, a wise man said, “I have nothing to say! ” Wisdom does not always talk; it talks at the right time, saying the right words.” – Olaotan Fawehinmi
110.“Wise people are motivated by the quotes and by the books.” – Deyth Banger
111.“When you are in conversation with other people, choose your words wisely. Your words have great power and you should be aware of this.” – Daniel Smith
112.“God’s wisdom leads us to live the best life possible. He promised to give us His wisdom when we look for it.” – Heather Shore
113.“Stop fretting about past decisions. They have provided valuable wisdom. Go forward without fear or regret.” – Paul Martens
114.“Where there is light, there is wisdom. Where there is light, there is divine. Where there is light, there is serenity.” – Birister Sharma
115.“Wise people make trails and paths, clever walk on them – stupid people can’t decide.” – Deyth Banger
116.“Be determined to seek wisdom.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
117.“When someone can love without judging, he is truly wise.” – Debasish Mridha
118.“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
119.“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
120.“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Immanuel Kant
121.“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.” – Bob Marley
122.“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin
123.“Wisdom comes from experience, and most of those experiences are painful and costly. If you can learn from someone else’s pain and expense, you are a wise person, indeed.” – Jim Stovall
124.“The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
125.“Nobody is born wise.” – African proverb
126.“What separates the wise from the unwise is; how a person reacts and responds to each new twist of fate.” – Aditya Ajmera
127.“The wisest people are often the simplest.” – Debasish Mridha
128.“Looking for positives is always wise in any situation that you may encounter.” – Steven Redhead
129.“You’ve heard that it’s wise to learn from experience, but it is wiser to learn from the experience of others.” – Rick Warren
130.“Feeding the ego is starving the wisdom, the choice is yours.” – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
131.“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” – Marilyn vos Savant
132.“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” – Khalil Gibran
133.“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.” – Brian O’Driscoll
134.“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz
135.“A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.” – Kenyan proverb
136.“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
137.“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton
138.“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia
139.“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
140.“The fool speaks, the wise man listens.” – Ethiopian proverb
141.“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise Hay
142.“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
143.“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” – Dalai Lama
144.“Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem.” – Akan proverb
145.“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
146.“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” – Voltaire
147.“The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.” – Cameroon proverb
148.“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchil
149.“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
150.“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
151.“It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing things, but seeing through things.” – Manly P. Hall
152.“Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” – Zen Proverb
153.“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” – Francis Bacon
154.“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
155.“The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.” – Ivan Panin
156.“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
157.“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
158.“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” – Barack Obama
159.“When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.” – Betty Bender
160.“Every thought we think is creating our future.” – Louise Hay
161.“Our abilities to understand, adjust, and change make us wise.” – Debasish Mridha
162.“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.” – Herman Hesse
163.“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.” – Louise Hay
164.“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.” – William
165.“Wisdom sails with wind and time.” – John Florio
166.“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.” – Michel de Montaigne
167.“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” – Thomas J. Watson
168.“A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them.” – Bangambiki Habyarimana
169.“Wise is the woman who rises above her circ*mstances.” – Liz Curtis Higgs
170.“Wisdom is like fire. People take it from others.” – Hema (DRC) proverb
171.“I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.” – Harry S. Truman
172.“We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.” – Rajesh Nanoo
173.“WISDOM is the STRONGEST weapon you could EVER acquire in your LIFETIME.” – Anonymous
174.“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
175.“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
176.“Wisdom is wealth.” – Swahili
177.“I do not fix problems I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.” – Louise Hay
178.“Wisdom does not come overnight.” – Somali proverb
179.“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
180.“Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.” – Guinean proverb
181.“Empty cans make the most noise.” – Unknown
182.“A wise person will always find a way.” – Tanzanian proverb
183.“The wisest of people in this world are those that admit when they are wrong.” – Unknown
184.“Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.” – Akan proverb
185.“A world guided by wisdom is the proverbial heaven on earth.” – Proverb
186.“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” – Thomas Huxley
187.“The path of wisdom is a lifelong journey.” – Unknown
188.“I am still learning.” – Michelangelo
189.“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway
190.“If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.” – African proverb
191.“The only person you should aim to be wiser than is the person you were yesterday.” – Stuart Hodgson
192.“Understand what you are and what the world is, then only fulfillment will come.” – Paul Brunton
193.“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – M. K. Gandhi
194.“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
195.“In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.” – Lord Chesterfield
196.“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.” – Pluto
197.“Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
198.“If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you.” – Louise Hay
199.“Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.” – Akan proverb
200.“In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams.” – Nigerian proverb
Applying WiseQuotes to Develop Wisdom
Knowledge is facts, and figures that we get from study, or research. But if you want to develop wisdom, you have to actually apply those concepts to your life in a practical way. It is about applying common sense and clear thinking to the situations.
There is no doubt wisdom is a great source of power. It can prevent you from making wrong decisions and help you avoid pain. Being wise means reflecting upon life’s experiences and learning how to draw insights from them.
In summary, wisdom is learning to apply knowledge and experience to your life to help you have a great journey through life. We hope that these Wise quotes will inspire you to remain calm and composed under the pressure. After all, true wisdom is all about nurturing positive thoughts.
Alice Judy
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