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Wisdom Quote by Bruce Lee

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Francis Bacon

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

An intelligent man believes only half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Evan Esar

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Bob Marley

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Julius Caesar

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

William Shakespeare

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows he is a fool.

William Shakespeare

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

Ivan Panin

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Norman Cousins

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

René Descartes

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for eternal wisdom does not forsake those who are pure in heart.

Kahlil Gibran

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.

Paul Engle

There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

Do not correct a fool, or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.

Unknown

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Elizabeth Kenny

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

M. Scott Peck

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

John Henry Newman

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Confucius

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Sun Tzu

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Plato

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

René Descartes

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart.

Aeschylus

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Paulo Coelho

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

William Temple

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Horace

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Paulo Coelho

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

It is not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Lao Tzu

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao Tzu

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H.L. Mencken

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Lao Tzu

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently.

Aristotle

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Benjamin Franklin

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Henry Ford

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others.

Tibetan Proverb

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Terry Pratchett

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Anton Chekhov

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Lao Tzu

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Merry Browne