January 3rd, 2019 | Updated on February 15th, 2022
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
4. When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. -Jess C. Scott
5. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. -Aristotle
6. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates
7. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -Isaac Asimov
8. Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. -John Lennon
9. Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly. -Langston Hughes
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. He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. -Confucius
15. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
16. 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
17. 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
18. Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. -Oscar Wilde
19. Any fool can know. The point is to understand. -Albert Einstein
20. Think before you speak. Read before you think. -Fran Lebowitz
21. Turn your wounds into wisdom. -Oprah Winfrey
22. Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. -Isaac Asimov
23. The unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates
24. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. -Paulo Coelho
25. 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
26. Angry people are not always wise. -Jane Austen
27. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. -Martin Luther King Jr.
28. 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
29. 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
30. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. -Leo Tolstoy
31. 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
32. God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard
33. 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
34. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. -Lao Tzu
35. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette
36. 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
37. 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
38. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. -Jalaluddin Rumi
39. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. -Friedrich Nietzsche
40. I’m not young enough to know everything. -J.M. Barrie
41. 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
42. It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. -Albert Einstein
43. The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. -Albert Einstein
44. Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold. -Bob Marley
45. The past has no power over the present moment. -Eckhart Tolle
46. 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
47. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection -Sharon Salzberg
48. Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. -Paulo Coelho
49. Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. -Terry Pratchett
50. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. -Jalaluddin Rumi
51. The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. -Thomas Paine
52. I am looking for friends. What does that mean — tame?” “It is an act too often neglected,” said the fox. “It means to establish ties.” “To establish ties?”
53. 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
54. The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. -Michel de Montaigne
55. Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes. -Rick Riordan
56. The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. -Maya Angelou
57. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. -Leo Tolstoy
58. 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
59. Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy -Ludwig van Beethoven
60. I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. -Bruce Lee
