Top 200 Wisdom Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

— Albert Einstein

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2. “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

— Voltaire

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3. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

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4. “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

— Marilyn Vos Savant

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5. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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6. “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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7. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

— Michael Jordan

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8. “He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”

— Confucius

9. “The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”

— John Burroughs

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10. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Elizabeth Kenny

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12. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

— Annie Dillard

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

— Paulo Coelho

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14. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

— Bob Marley

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15. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

— Martin Luther

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16. “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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17. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

— Edmund Burke

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18. “The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

— Thomas Paine

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19. “He not busy being born is busy dying.”

— Bob Dylan

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20. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

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21. “Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”

— Lao Tzu

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22. “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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23. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

— Lao Tzu

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24. “Lost time is never found again.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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25. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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26. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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27. “Don’t hurry anything. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about what progress you’re making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.”

— Alan Watts

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28. “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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29. “You cannot open a book without learning something.”

— Confucius

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30. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

— Epictetus

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31. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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32. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi

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33. “I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.”

— Billy Graham

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34. “If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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35. “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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36. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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37. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

— Rumi

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38. “The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.”

— Miguel Ruiz

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39. “Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.”

— William Arthur Ward

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40. “Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’”

— Marcus Aurelius

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41. “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”

— John C. Maxwell

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42. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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43. “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 XIV

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44. “When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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45. “Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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46. “Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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47. “You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.”

— Charlie Munger

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48. “Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”

— Alan Watts

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49. “Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”

— Buddha

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50. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

— Confucius

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