50 Inspirational Quotes About Wisdom That Will Inspire You to Succeed

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

2. “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”-Maurice Switzer

3. “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”-William Shakespeare

4. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”-Mark Twain

5. “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”-Jess C. Scott

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

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

8. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”-Isaac Asimov

9. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”-John Lennon

10. “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”-Mark Twain

11. “May you live every day of your life.”-Jonathan Swift

12. “Never laugh at live dragons.”-J.R.R. Tolkien

13. “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”-Paulo Coelho

14. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”-Aristotle

15. “If you’re reading this…Congratulations, you’re alive.If that’s not something to smile about,then I don’t know what is.”-Chad Sugg

16. “The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.”-Abigail Van Buren

17. “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”-Oscar Wilde

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

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

20. “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”-Isaac Asimov

21. “The unexamined life is not worth living.”-Socrates

22. “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”-Paulo Coelho

23.“ By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”-Confucius

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

25. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”-J.R.R. Tolkien

26. “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”-Patrick Rothfuss

27. “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”-Leo Tolstoy

28. “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.”-Patrick Ness

29. “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”-Elbert Hubbard

30. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”-Albert Einstein

31.“Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength;mastering yourself is true power.”-Lao Tzu

32. “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”-George Orwell

33. “The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”-Marjorie Pay Hinckley

34.“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”-Jalaluddin Rumi

35. “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”-Friedrich Nietzsche

36. “I’m not young enough to know everything.”-J.M. Barrie

37. “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,that we may record our emptiness.”-Kahlil Gibran

38.“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”-Albert Einstein

39.“Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”-Bob Marley

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

41. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”-Joseph Campbell

42. “Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”-Coelho

43. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”-Jalaluddin Rumi

44. “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”-Thomas Paine

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

46. “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”-Leo Tolstoy

47. “There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”-Paulo Coelho

48. “Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”-Ludwig van Beethoven

49. “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”-Maya Angelou

50. “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”-Robert Frost