Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Wisdom.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Paulo Coelho
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Friedrich Schiller
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
Orson Scott Card
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
William Shakespeare
In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
E. S. Bouton
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Plautus