44 Wisdom Quotes

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” -Saint Augustine

“Wise it is to comprehend the whole.” -Edward Young

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” -Fran Lebowitz

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” -Thomas Jefferson

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” -Jimi Hendrix

“In silence there is wisdom.” -Hap Hagood

“If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.” -Leo Buscaglia

“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.” -Rick Riordan

“Even a fish wouldn’t get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.”

“Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.”

“Be quick to learn and wise to know.” -George Burns

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” -Sun Tzu

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” -Albert Einstein

“Angry people are not always wise.” -Jane Austen

“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.” -Og Mandino

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” -Francis Bacon

“A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.” -Jack Herbert

“A memory without the emotional charge is called wisdom.” -Joe Dispenza

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” -William Blake

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” -William Shakespeare

“Wisdom thoroughly learned will never be forgotten.” -Pythagoras

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” -Leonardo Da Vinci

“Wisdom is mostly the fruit of experience.” -Edward Counsel

“Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.” -William Stafford

“Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather.”

“Wisdom comes only through suffering.” -Aeschylus

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.” -Samuel Smiles

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” -Oprah Winfrey

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” -Bertrand Russell

“The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.” -Nicolas Boileau

“The past has no power over the present moment.” -Eckhart Tolle

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” -Socrates

“The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.”

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.” -Benjamin Franklin

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.” -Rumi

“Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.”

“No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.” -Erica Jong

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.” -Juvenal

“Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools.”

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” -Anton Chekhov

“Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.” -Austin ‘OMalley

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” -Aristotle

“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” -Elizabeth Kenny