Wisdom Quotes

"Wisdom is not found in books alone, but in the quiet contemplation of the natural world."

"True intellectual power is the ability to remain in a state of uncertainty and mystery without searching for logical answers."

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

"To understand oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

"Only the broken are the masters of mending."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"The wise man knows that every interaction is just the first chapter of a very long book."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles."

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

"The choices we make lead to the actual lives we live."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"Resilience is the virtue that enables people to move through hardship and become better."

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."

"The only thing I do know is that I know nothing."

"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome."

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"The years teach much which the days never know."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"It is best to prepare for the days of necessity."

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."

"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."

"To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them."

"Wonder is the first of all the passions."