Browse this selection of great wisdom quotes.
Wayne Dyer
Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that will weaken you.
Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Sophocles
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Marilyn vos Savant
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Confucius
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom.
Lin Yutang
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power.
Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Lao-Tzu
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Marcel Proust
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of he main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Aristotle
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd rather have been talking.