80 Wisdom Quotes
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.” - Charles Spurgeon
04/10/2020 08:15h
80 Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom is the ability to use one's experiences and the things we know in order to make good judgements and decisions. Each success and each failure become a learning tool to improve and make yourself even wiser. It not only comes with age, but also with experience.
Read and feel inspired by these Wisdom Quotes.
1"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever."
2"When our imperfect judgments are aggregated in the right way, our collective intelligence is often excellent."
3"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
4"The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."
5“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
6“Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.”
7“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
8“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.”
9“It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
10“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
11“When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.”
12“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
13“Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.”
14"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
15"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."
16"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
17"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
18“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
19“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
20“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
21“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
22“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
23“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
24“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
25“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
26“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
27“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
28“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
29“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
30“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.”
31"One head cannot hold all wisdom."
32"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
33"Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers."
34“The door to wisdom is knowing yourself.”
35“Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.”
36"Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions."
37"The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue."
38"An intelligent man believes only half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half."
39"Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread."
40"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
41"Wisdom is a treasure, the key whereof is never lost."
42"Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error."
43"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
44"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: The music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
45"Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools."
46"Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul."
47“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
48“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
49“Cleverness is not wisdom.”
50“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
51“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.”
52“True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.”
53“Wisdom begins at the end.”
54“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”
55“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”
56“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”
57“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
58“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
59"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
60"To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom."
61"Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
62"Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen."
63"Great is the number of those who might attain true wisdom if they did not already think themselves wise."
64"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
65"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs."
66"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
67"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
68"The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle."
69"Wisdom is a safe ship; and we may trust ourselves to it in all weathers."
70"True wisdom is knowing what you don't know."
71"Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn."
72"There are many gates to the house of wisdom."
73"Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation."
74"When Reason died, then Wisdom was born."
75“Angry people are not always wise.”
76"To display courage without wisdom is like firing a rifle blindfolded."
77"Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass."
78"A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy."
79"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."
80“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
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