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
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.
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 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
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
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
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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