All the gold on the earth is not enough to exchange for virtue.
- Plato
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
-Socrates
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.
-Haruki Murakami
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
-Anatole France
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
-Morihei Ueshiba
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
-Keith Miller
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge is discovered collectively, wisdom is rediscovered individually.
-Naval Ravikant
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
-Johann Georg Hamann
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
-Samuel Johnson
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
-Diogenes
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.
-Zen proverb
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
-Lactantius
The animal acts and does not reflect. The indecisive man reflects and does not act. The average man reflects after he acts. The wise man reflects before he acts.
-The Stoic Emperor
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
-Democritus
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
-Zhuangzi
We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
-Michel de Montaigne
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
-Leo Tolstoy
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be like a warrior with the process, be like water with the results.
-Nate Miyaki
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
-Albert Einstein
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
-William Faulkner
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Wisdom waits for you to be silent enough to hear.
-B. D. Schiers
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
-Bruce Lee
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
-Marcus Aurelius
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
-Aristotle
The source of wisdom is whatever is happening to us right at this very instant.
-Pema Chödrön
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
-Democritus
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
-Confucius
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
–Buddha
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
-Lao Tzu
Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.
-Euripides
Prevention is better than cure.
-Desiderius Erasmus
Believe not everything, but only what is proven: the former is foolish, the latter the act of a sensible man. Fools are shaped by the gifts of chance, but those who understand these things, by the gifts of wisdom.
-Democritus
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
-Buddha
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
-Henry David Thoreau
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
-Galileo Galilei
Perhaps wisdom is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
-Anthony Bourdain
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
-Plato
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.
-King Solomon