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Words of Wisdom

Words of wisdom are like nuggets of gold when found at the right time. A little knowledge can go a long way.

Here are some beautiful and funny words to live by that you can carry in your mind as you move ahead on the winding path of life.

Best Words of Wisdom

1.) For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

2.) Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
Unknown

Beautiful Words of Wisdom.

3.) God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr

4.) When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller

5.) Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
Buddha

6.) If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Prime purpose in this life quote.

Good Words of Wisdom

7.) God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire

8.) A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.
Lord John Russell

9.) A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell

10.) Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
Satchel Paige

11.) The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.
John C. Maxwell

12.) Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

13.) What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Wayne Dyer

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Funny wisdom quotations.

Funny Words of Wisdom

14.) The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.
Chinese Proverb

15.) Even a fish wouldn’t get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.
Korean Proverb

16.) Chairs were created because someone, somewhere, wanted to solve a big problem: sitting on rocks causes sore bottoms.
Bill Burnett

17.) The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde

Wise Words

18.) If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap heap.
Glen Buck

19.) Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

20.) Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard

21.) Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw

22.) The only time I don’t have any problems in this world is when I am already six feet below the ground.
James Jason

23.) The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

24.) Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.
Pope Francis

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25.) Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Bill Gates

Quotations on knowledge.

Sage Quotations

26.) Humor oils the wheels of life and helps to keep it running smoothly.
Dorothea Kopplin

27.) Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

28.) A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Unknown

29.) People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for, you will find it everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.) In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

31.) The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu

32.) In bad things, be slow; in good things, be fast.
Afghan Proverb

33.) He who flees at the right time can fight again.
Marcus Terentius Varro

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What does the word “wisdom” mean?

Dictionaries define wisdom as accumulated philosophical or scientific learning or good sense. It’s the accumulation of knowledge.

Wisdom synonyms include sense, judgment, common sense, sagacity, knowledge, being wise, shrewdness, and intelligence.

Common Sense and Intelligence Quotations

34.) He that respects himself is safe from others.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

35.) Trouble shared is a trouble halved.
Lee Iacocca

36.) Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
Lawrence J. Peter

37.) Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou Holtz

38.) The wise person doesn’t give the right answers, but poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss

Inspirational Words of Wisdom

39.) It’s not what you look at that matters; it’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

40.) Appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu

41.) Life is short. Eat dessert first.
Jacques Torres

42.) Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
Unknown

43.) 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

44.) Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow; it’s all the same day.
Janis Joplin

Quotation on being wise.

Inspiring

45.) Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.
Fred Propp Jr.

46.) A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

47.) A man is not paid for having a head and hands but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard

48.) Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

49.) To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert

50.) Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
Unknown

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51.) We are made wise not by the recollection of our past but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw

52.) My father used to say, You would worry less about what people think if you knew how little they did.
Dr. Phil McGraw

53.) The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
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54.) Life is a journey, not a destination.
Cliff Nichols

55.) The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

56.) You have to have a darkness for the dawn to come.
Harrison Ford

57.) Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius

Words of Wisdom For Kids

58.) It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden

59.) God gave us mouths that close and ears that don’t– that should tell us something.
Eugene O’Neil

60.) There are three constants in life…change, choice, and principles.
Stephen Covey

61.) One head cannot hold all wisdom.
Maasai Proverb

62.) A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil

63.) Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
Unknown

Words of wisdom - Don't take yourself too seriously saying.

Word to the Wise

64.) Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of Wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

65.) Life is what you make it.
Grandma Moses

66.) That which does not kill us only makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzche

67.) Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
Dalai Lama

68.) Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
Books of the Han Dynasty

Perceptive Insights

69.) Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

70.) Plan your life as if you will live forever, and live your life like you will die the next day.
Unknown

71.) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

72.) In the eyes of a child, you will see…the world as it should be.
Unknown

73.) Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
Dalai Lama

74.) The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Mark Twain

Motivational Wisdom Quotes

75.) Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein

76.) The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute; the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Confucius

77.) Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso

78.) The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
Hamza Yusuf

79.) The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain

80.) Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

81.) Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Isaac Asimov

Positive Quotes

82.) We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie

83.) You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake

84.) When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Paulo Coelho

85.) Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their heads turned up way too loud to hear it.
Brian Vaszily

86.) Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
John D. Rockefeller

87.) You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

88.) What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ellen Glasgow

Short Words of Wisdom Quotes

89.) Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
John Lennon

90.) The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides

91.) Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard

92.) The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker

93.) To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.
Paulo Coelho

94.) Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey

95.) Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt

96.) Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.
Thomas Jefferson

97.) By changing nothing, nothing changes.
Tony Robbins

98.) We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

99.) I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa

100.) The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu

Final Thoughts

There is no one thing that can help you get smart. It is life itself and the lessons you learn each day that carry with them knowledge.

The words of great men and women may carry a lot of wisdom, but they earned those insights over years or decades of experience.

Some of your most important and life-changing lessons come from the harshest or hardest of experiences. The road to becoming a wise man or woman has many obstacles and pains.

By Michael O’Halloran

Michael is a writer and founder of Greeting Card Poet.

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