Top 621 Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is knowledge worn smooth by experience. The quotes gathered here span centuries of philosophy, faith, and hard-won insight: distilled thoughts on how to think clearly, live deliberately, and see the world as it is.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
J. Michael Straczynski
J. Michael Straczynski
Share
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
Huangbo Xiyun
Huangbo Xiyun
Share
If you want to earn more - learn more.
William J.H. Boetcker
William J.H. Boetcker
Share
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Rosa Lewis
Rosa Lewis
Share
Seek first to understand before being understood.
J.Richard Clarke
J.Richard Clarke
Share
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it.
Unknown
Unknown
Also featured in: leadership change

Share
To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
A.H. Almaas
A.H. Almaas
Share
In the end, it's all a question of balance.
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry
Also featured in: mindfulness

Share
Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is you're stupid and make bad decisions.
Marion G. Harmon
Marion G. Harmon
Share
We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.
Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull
Also featured in: change

Share
Everybody has their own problems. No matter how big you think yours are, there is someone else that has bigger problems or different problems.
Josh Hutcherson
Josh Hutcherson
Share
Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
Share
The answer to 1984 is 1776.
Alex Jones
Alex Jones
Share
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
Unknown
Unknown
Share
Always keep learning. It keeps you young.
Patty Berg
Patty Berg
Share
i am now choosing to think only those thoughts which will bring me peace and will align me to a higher consciousness. I am doing this easily and through my own intention to know myself as Word. Word I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.
Unknown
Unknown
Also featured in: time mindfulness

Share
Chill out, relax and have an open mind.
George Noory
George Noory
Share
When you play, never mind who listens to you.
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
Share
This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it's got a limited chance of making its way into your brain's hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.
Michael Bungay Stanier
Michael Bungay Stanier
Also featured in: mindset

Share
I think, therefore I am confused.
Benjamin Hoff
Benjamin Hoff
Share
If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.
Adam M. Grant
Adam M. Grant
Share
Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
Also featured in: change

Share
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
Also featured in: inspiration

Share
I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Also featured in: time

Share
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles
Also featured in: wealth

Share
Truth and news are not the same thing.
Katharine Graham
Katharine Graham
Share
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Share
Think global, act local.
Patrick Geddes
Patrick Geddes
Share
Being business minded requires you to always approach things with humility and respect.
Steve Maraboli
Steve Maraboli
Also featured in: wealth

Share
Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two.
Devdutt Pattanaik
Devdutt Pattanaik
Share
There is no truth. Only points of view.
Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell
Share
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman
Share
Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.
Leslie Lamport
Leslie Lamport
Share
I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it, but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.
Anne Sullivan Macy
Anne Sullivan Macy
Share
Reserve your right to think. for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia
Hypatia
Also featured in: change

Share
Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. If you were shamed, choose compassion.
Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you – to heal instead of becoming bitter so you can act from your heart, not your pain.
Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you – to heal instead of becoming bitter so you can act from your heart, not your pain.
Share
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way; free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
John Diefenbaker
John Diefenbaker
Also featured in: inspiration courage

Share
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny
Jack Benny
Share
You must learn to wait properly.
Eugen Herrigel
Eugen Herrigel
Share
Silence is golden. Words are vibrations. Thoughts are magic.
Joseph Fink
Joseph Fink
Also featured in: inspiration

Share
For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?
Unknown
Unknown
Also featured in: inspiration time faith

Share
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Share
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett
Share
Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
J. Nozipo Maraire
J. Nozipo Maraire
Share
Think before you act. Reason before you react.
Kemi Segunle
Kemi Segunle
Share
If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.
Mattie Stepanek
Mattie Stepanek
Also featured in: gratitude

Share
The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson.
Tracy Maxine
Tracy Maxine
Also featured in: time

Share
Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma.
Thubten Zopa
Thubten Zopa
Also featured in: motivation mindset inspiration

Share

Related collections