99 Quotes Of Wisdom

In a world brimming with information, it's the timeless nuggets of wisdom that often provide the most profound guidance. Whether you're seeking inspiration, motivation, or a fresh perspective on life's many challenges, a well-crafted quote can offer just the spark you need. In this carefully curated selection of the top 99 quotes of wisdom, you'll find insights from some of the world's greatest thinkers, philosophers, and everyday sages. Dive in and let these powerful words light your path to a richer, more thoughtful existence.

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

2. “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” - John Keats

3. “I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. ” - Anthony Robbins

4. “Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.” - Brian Tracy

5. “There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

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

7. “Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.” - Joss Whedon

8. “The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.” - Dante Alighieri

9. “We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” - Oscar Wilde

10. “Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.” - André Maurois

11. “Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not.It's a bait for popularity.Disputational knowing wants customers.It has no soul...The only real customer is God.Chew quietlyyour sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stayplayfully childish.” - Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

12. “To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.” - Lionel Barrymore

13. “Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion. ” - Sorin Cerin

14. “The sun always shines above the clouds.” - Paul F. Davis

15. “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door” - Milton Berle

16. “If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.” - Askhari Johnson Hodari

17. “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” - Hippolyte Taine

18. “There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish.” - John Keats

19. “One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless...” - Hermann Hesse

20. “For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.” - Erich Maria Remarque

21. “اود ان اقول لك: ان بعد كل خيار هناك خيارات اخرى.. حياتنا هذه ليست خيارا واحدا نؤديه ونستسلم بعدها لكل ما يحدث بنا. حياتنا ليست مفترق طريق منفرد و وحيد نختار اي جهة سنسلك وينتهي الامر بعدها.. ابدا.. كل خيار يفتح سلسلة من الخيارات. وكل مفترق طريق يحوي خلفه سلسلة من مفترقات طرق.. وفي كل خطوة من خطوات حياتنا يوجد قدران، نختار واحدا منهما بملء ارادتنا..” - أحمد خيري العمري

22. “The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.” - Charles Kingsley

23. “What the spiritual journey is all about is uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all its aspects honors Him and gives Him glory.” - Ralph Martin

24. “It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.” - Otto von Bismarck

25. “They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.” - Ken Kesey

26. “Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.” - Peggy Vincent

27. “I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.” - Philip Pullman

28. “Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.” - Siddhārtha Gautama

29. “You have perhaps heard some false reportsOn the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fable. He is not mocked nor forgotten--Successfully. God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars--If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond themWere that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears--And where is the German Reich? There alsoWill be prodigious America and world-owning China. I say that all hopes and empires will die like yours;Mankind will die, there will be no more fools; wisdom will die; the very stars will die;One fierce life lasts.” - Robinson Jeffers

30. “Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.” - Mikhail Naimy

31. “ Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity. ” - Sorin Cerin

32. “Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities. ” - Sorin Cerin

33. “The worship of power is an old religion.” - George Santayana

34. “Life is easy. We make it hard.” - Danny Wilson

35. “Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.” - Deepak Chopra

36. “No one, from pontiffs to professors, has a monopoly on the truth. In the end, we are all just travelers--not scientists or mystics or any one brand of thinker. By nature, we are scientists and mystics, reductionists and holists, left-brained and right-brained, mixed up creatures trying to catch an occasional glimpse of the truth. The best we can do is to be tolerant of both sides of our nature--knowing that these reflect the twin aspect of the universe--and learn from whatever wisdom is offered.” - David Darling

37. “Justru karena cinta, kamu memelihara dirimu dan dirinya agar tetap mulia. Bila ia mendekat, tetaplah duduk. Karena itu yang menjaga emosi agar tak meletup. Bila ia menjauh, jangan dekati dia sebelum waktunya. Sabar itu jauh lebih istimewa. Atau kalau tak tahan lagi, segeralah datang ke rumah orang tuanya! Itu lebih mulia.” - Ahmad Fuady

38. “Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.” - Criss Jami

39. “Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.” - Criss Jami

40. “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

41. “Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.” - CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

42. “The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it” - David Eddings

43. “Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.” - Pope John Paul II

44. “Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.” - Charles Kingsley

45. “If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.” - Sheldon B. Kopp

46. “If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.” - Quentin R. Bufogle

47. “Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kālāmas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, not by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, not by the idea: 'this is our teacher'. But, O Kālāmas, when you know for yourself that certain things are unwholesome, and wrong, and bad, then give them up... And when you know for yourself that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.” - The Buddha

48. “The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.” - Shannon Alder

49. “One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.” - Sun Tzu

50. “Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.” - Marcus Aurelius

51. “At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.” - Annie Dillard

52. “How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?” - Rebecca Solnit

53. “Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

54. “Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.” - Jodi Picoult

55. “It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.” - Jefferson Smith

56. “Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.” - Janaki Sooriyarachchi

57. “Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.” - Sandra Chami Kassis

58. “الحب هو ذكاء المسافة، ألّا تقترب كثيرًا فتلغي اللهفة، ولا تبتعد طويلًا فتُنسى.” - أحلام مستغانمي

59. “Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!” - E.A. Bucchianeri

60. “Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

61. “No, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair.” - The Dragon King of Beijing

62. “The life of your body may be sustained by daily bread and rice, but the life of your soul may only be sustained by the fruit of wisdom.” - Subhan Zein

63. “Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.” - Haruki Murakami

64. “I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.” - Robin Hobb

65. “There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.” - J. Sterling

66. “A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin” - Benny Bellamacina

67. “You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.” - Peter Watts

68. “The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it” - Jacques Cousteau

69. “Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate.” - Dr Roopleen

70. “There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.” - Dejan Stojanovic

71. “Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

72. “When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air.” - Dejan Stojanovic

73. “Pretense cannot sustain blind power.” - Dejan Stojanovic

74. “To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

75. “Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.” - Dejan Stojanovic

76. “It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.” - Dejan Stojanovic

77. “It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.” - Dejan Stojanovic

78. “If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?” - Dejan Stojanovic

79. “The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts and questions, while fools are so certain about things.” - Shannon L. Alder

80. “غريب امرنا نحن البشر, حكماء ورائعون بتوزيع النصائح على الاخرين, وخاصه لاولئك القريبين منا , من لهم مكانه خاصه عندنا, لكننا متهورون وصبيانون في تعاملنا مع انفسنا بالذات , هل نريد بذلك منع اصدقائنا الاحبه من الوقوع في الهاويه نفسها التي وقعنا فيها, ام اننا عن طريق حماستنا بتقديم النصائح لهم واخفائنا مافعلناه في الحقيقه , مثل مافعلوه هم نريد الدفاع عن اخر حجه في حوزتنا, لكي لانتخذ قرار نندم عليه لاحقا؟ ام لاننا نرى في قرارهم القرار الذي تمنياه ولم نستطع انجازه؟ بغداد مالبورو” - نجم والي

81. “Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

82. “It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.” - Jules Verne

83. “You will never be satisfied with anything less than the highest you can attain.” - Apoorve Dubey

84. “Optimists are usually inexperienced.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

85. “Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen” - George R.R. Martin

86. “Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.” - Bryant McGill

87. “Wisdom and prudence are always recompensed.” - Sophie Segur

88. “let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don’t follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not” - Christopher Paolini

89. “Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.” - Marcel Proust

90. “Кучето обича господаря си, а котката неговата къща.” - Чудомир

91. “Мъжът започва да дири ум в жена си чак след като е опитал всичко друго у нея.” - Чудомир

92. “Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people” - Benny Bellamacina

93. “The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure.""So what, it's stupid to even try?""No. It's unwise to hope."- Something Like Stardust” - Genevieve A. Ross

94. “the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.” - Alexandre Dumas

95. “Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!” - Uncle Arnie Mamath

96. “The state or conditions into which you lead your wife will be the state or conditions in which you find yourself. You cannot lead your wife into happiness and not get there yourself.” - Aleathea Dupree

97. “You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever...but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed.” - Suzanne Palmieri

98. “Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.” - Alan Bennett

99. “Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.” - Idries Shah