Stay Calm, Observe, and think beyond logic. To know more about wisdom. Read these most inspirational wisdom quotes & sayings from the greatest wise persons.
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Inspirational Wisdom Quotes And Sayings
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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
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“Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.” – Horace
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“Avoiding certain people to protect your emotional health is not a weakness. It’s wisdom.”
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“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” — Marilyn Vos Savant
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“Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” – Zen
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“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: The music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” – Walter Lippmann
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“Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.” – Austin O’Malley
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“Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.” — Khalil Gibran
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“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.” – Sophocles
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“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” ― Alexandra K. Trenfo
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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” — Voltaire
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“Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.” – Bodhidharma
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“Thinking before acting is wisdom but acting before thinking is regret.”
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“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
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“We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein
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“Wisdom is the reward of experience and should be shared.”
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“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” – Norman Cousins
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“One of the greatest secrets of life is having patience and wisdom.”
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“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver and gold.” – Bob Marley
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“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” – Robert Frost
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“Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.” – Oprah Winfrey
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“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – Saint Augustine
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“Deep doubts, Deep wisdom; Small doubts, little wisdom.” – Proverb
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“The greatest wisdom is to realize one’s lack of it.” – Constantin Stanislavski
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“The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.” – Jean Cocteau
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“Wisdom not only gets, but once got retains.”
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“Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.” – John Patrick
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“As for me. All I know is that I know nothing.” – Socrates
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“The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.” – John A simone Sr
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“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The Wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” – Hippolyte Taine
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“Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools.” – Wellins Calcott
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“Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.” – Pindar
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“Wisdom is the daughter of experience. “ – Leonardo Da Vinci
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“Wisdom is knowing what you want and what you need. Happiness is knowing what you have to keep and what you have to let go.”
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“Wisdom knows that relationships change over time, courage knows when it’s time to change the relationship.”
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“The doors of wisdom are never shut.” – Benjamin Franklin
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“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.” – George Santayana
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“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” – Ludwing van Beethoven
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“Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.” – Lactantius
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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.” – Marcus Tullius Ciceros
Wise Man Quotes
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A smart person knows what to say. A wise person knows whether or not to say it.”
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“As a wise man once said, ‘If not us, then who; if not now, then when?’” — Michael Jackson
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“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.” — Napoleon Hill
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“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.” — William Penn
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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” — Plato
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“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.” — Marcus Aurelius
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“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” — James Oppenheim
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“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” — Thomas Stephen Szasz
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“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” — Naguib Mahfouz
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“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” — Thomas Stephen Szasz
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“The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.” — Immanuel Kant
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“You can’t be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.” — Chris Brown
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“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.” — Ram Dass
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“A wise man can always be found alone. A weak man can always be found in a crowd.”
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“A wise man hears one word and understands two.”
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“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee
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“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” — Albert Einstein
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“Silence is sometimes the best answer.”
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“Sometimes you win sometimes you learn.”
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“Do not expect good directions from someone who has never made the journey.”
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“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
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“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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“I’ll never be old enough to know better.”
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“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.” – Publilius Syrus
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“You can’t teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” – Galileo Galillei
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“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.” – Aeschylus
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“He who knows best knows how little he knows.” – Thomas Jefferson
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“The more you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know – the less you know, the more you think you know.” – David T. Freeman
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“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.” – William Osler
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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by responsibility for our future.” – George Bernard Shaw
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“Fools talk; cowards are silent, wise men listen.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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“To Question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom.” – Proverb
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“Live without pretending, love without depending listen without defending, speak without offending.”
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“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and weak minds discuss people.” – Socrates
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“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.” – Viktor Frankl
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“I am too old to worry about who likes me and who dislikes me. I have more important things to do. If you love me, I love you. If you support me, I support you. If you hate me. I don’t care; life goes on with or without you.”
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“Don’t let getting lonely make you reconnect with toxic people. You shouldn’t drink poison just because you’re thirsty.”
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“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius
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“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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“God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.” — Charles H. Spurgeon
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“Look for the answer inside your question.” — Rumi
Wisdom For Life Quotes
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Immanuel Kant
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“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.” – Leo Tolstoy
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“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” – Doug Larson
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang
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“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.” – Hermann Hesse
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“The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.” – Hermann Hesse
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“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.” – Lucille Ball
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“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein
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“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” ―Irving Berlin
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“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill