77 Inspirational Quotes For Wisdom

In a world brimming with noise and distractions, finding clarity and wisdom can be a rare and precious experience. Whether you're seeking guidance in challenging times or simply looking to start each day with a motivational boost, the right words can resonate deeply, offering insight and inspiration. Our curated collection of 77 inspirational quotes for wisdom aims to illuminate your path, offering insights from some of the greatest minds and heartening voices throughout history. With each quote, you'll be encouraged to see the world from a new perspective and embrace the wisdom that lies within and around you.

1. “Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. “I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.” - Cornel West

3. “Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.” - Anne Frank

4. “The wisest men follow their own direction.” - Euripides

5. “We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.” - Abraham Maslow

6. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” - J.K. Rowling

7. “I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.” - Santosh Kalwar

8. “Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?Well, here's the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.Wisdom is like gossip. Except it's the good kind.” - Vera Nazarian

9. “This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at every featherThat comes before his eye. This is a practiseAs full of labour as a wise man's artFor folly that he wisely shows is fit;But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.” - William Shakespeare

10. “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.” - Horace

11. “How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?” - Mary Wollstonecraft

12. “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

13. “A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.” - Vera Nazarian

14. “Least said, soonest mended," Toby quipped, quoting a saying Jess often used.” - Jean Little

15. “Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.” - Joel Osteen

16. “The world gives us PLENTY of opportunities to strengthen our patience. While this truth can definitely be challenging, this is a good thing. Patience is a key that unlocks the door to a more fulfilling life. It is through a cultivation of patience that we become better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, good friends, and a live a happier life.” - Steve Maraboli

17. “I want to be a wise woman” - Lauren Hutton

18. “Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.” - Isaac Asimov

19. “One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.He was the Fourth to follow the Star.His gift was a secret.The rest of his journey is unknown.” - Vera Nazarian

20. “Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!” - Karl Lagerfeld

21. “And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.” - John Green

22. “The only way to see everything, my dear, is to see it absolutely.” - Sherry Lynn Ferguson

23. “The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.” - Confucius

24. “Smartass Disciple: My master, please show me how to be a wise man!Master of Stupidity: I can't. But I can show you how to do something wisely.” - Toba Beta

25. “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.” - Patrick Rothfuss

26. “Only wise men look for new wisdom.” - Toba Beta

27. “I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant” - William Saroyan

28. “I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.” - Stephen King

29. “Smartass Disciple: Master, we should not spend our time to low life like them.Master of Stupidity: If I don’t, then how should I lead men like you to be wiser?” - Toba Beta

30. “Your desire to advise other people, grows in line with your perception...that assumes you're wiser than them.” - Toba Beta

31. “No shortcut to wisdom.No tollways to be wise.” - Toba Beta

32. “In this world only the paranoid survive.” - Dean Koontz

33. “The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate. ” - Ann Druyan

34. “And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.""Huh?""Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.” - John Green

35. “She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale."DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted.Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts.""That's not any better!” - John Green

36. “God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a relationship with Him. This means not only hearing but allowing our understanding of God to change the way we live. Like the wise builder who laid the foundation of his house on the rock, we learn to let our knowledge of God change us.” - Tyler Edwards

37. “It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.Ignorance is our deepest secret.And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it.Here is a quick test:If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation.It will do both of you good.” - Vera Nazarian

38. “Laughter is poison to fear.” - George R.R. Martin

39. “I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.” - Criss Jami

40. “The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time.” - Greg Weisman

41. “It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.” - Jane Austen

42. “I don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.” - Hark Herald Sarmiento

43. “Love the people who love you back.” - Laura Ruby

44. “What makes you wise is not what you learn, but what you practice. What makes you wealthy is not what you earn, but what you invest. So, invest in what to practice, and practice what to invest.” - Michael Peshkam

45. “Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.” - James L. Halperin

46. “Lead looked to his hand and saw sparkling chunks of glass in the cracks of the road. He saw ants running around the cracks, infinitely small. His blood ran into the cracks, creating rivers for the industrious ants to perplex over. Lead smiled at the creatures, for he understood that there is no difference between them and us in their wanderings and labor.” - Nathan Yocum

47. “And I would have answered:"The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is to find it a place among the smooth planks, the more people agree that it should be thrown on the fire, the more useless it is, the more unsuitable for anything except letting one's imagination run riot, the more I covet it, the more I yearn to weigh it in my hand, the more I long to let my whittling knife be guided by its knots and veins...Yes, bring that piece to me...” - Sjón

48. “Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.” - Anne Holm

49. “There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.” - Anne Holm

50. “Yes, he had made a good choice after all when he had chosen the God of the green pasture and the still waters! He was very powerful, and the fact that He expected you to think for yourself and do something in return for His help did not matter, as long as you could work things out.” - Anne Holm

51. “They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.” - Anton Chekhov

52. “Wisdom comes from reflection.” - Deborah Day

53. “If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.” - Criss Jami

54. “Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time toward correcting the problem. Always remember, Time is value!” - Victoria Addino

55. “I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.” - Joseph Stalin

56. “Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.” - A.J.P. Taylor

57. “The dark hills, with the darker spruces marching over them, looked grim on early falling nights, but Ingleside bloomed with firelight and laughter, though the winds come in from the Atlantic singing of mournful things. "Why isn't the wind happy, Mummy?" asked Walter one night. "Because it is remembering all the sorrow of the world since it began," answered Anne.” - L.M. Montgomery

58. “Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them ," parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.” - L.M. Montgomery

59. “No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.” - A Gentlemen

60. “Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.” - Jodi Picoult

61. “Some People Are Wise, And Some Are Otherwise.” - Unknown 9

62. “When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.” - Idries Shah

63. “It's just hard now because... you're jealous. But your heart is so generous and warm, it will melt the bad feelings away." I am 100 percent positive that my mom is the wisest mother in the world.” - Jane O'Connor

64. “Wise are my ways witty my actions” - N A Parnham

65. “Let us not be bored” - Joe Buberger

66. “HONOR ways did not won the WAR” - رامي عمار

67. “Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.” - Meredith Duran

68. “There is a time to speak up, and a time to be silent. A time to read and a time to write. A time to learn and a time to teach. A time to listen and time to be heard. A time to lose and a time to gain. And for all of these things the time in now” - Unsure of origin

69. “Even a God finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.” - Tina Smith

70. “All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

71. “It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.” - John C. Maxwell

72. “I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.” - Lana Del Rey

73. “The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.” - Oscar Wilde

74. “Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?” - Richelle E. Goodrich

75. “We all look. The lucky find. The wise accept.” - Nora Roberts

76. “If you are a sparrow, don’t attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don’t attack the sparrow; be just!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

77. “If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.” - Adriana Trigiani