Wisdom Quotes

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

Heraclitus

"Wisdom comes through suffering."

Aeschylus

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

Seneca

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the opinions about things."

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification."

Publilius Syrus

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

"Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy."

Zhuangzi

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

René Descartes

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

John Locke

"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."

Baltasar Gracián

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

Alexander Pope

"To err is human, to forgive divine."

Alexander Pope

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

Samuel Johnson

"Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."

William Cowper

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

William Blake

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."

William Blake

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The years teach much which the days never know."

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."

"Well done is better than well said."

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

"We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us."

Marcel Proust

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy