Top 200 Wisdom Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

— Saint Augustine

52. “You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— Napoleon Hill

53. “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”

— Eckhart Tolle

54. “Make of yourself a light.”

— Buddha

55. “Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.”

— Buddha

56. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”

— Rumi

57. “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”

— Marcus Aurelius

58. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

59. “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

— Seneca

60. “Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?”

— Rumi

61. “Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”

— Ram Dass

62. “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.”

— Oprah Winfrey

63. “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”

— Buddha

64. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

— Francis Bacon

65. “In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

66. “No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

67. “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.”

— Bruce Lee

68. “Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

69. “If the big rocks don’t go in first, they aren’t going to fit in later.”

— Stephen R. Covey

70. “A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

71. “Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

72. “In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”

— Lao Tzu

73. “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

— Aldous Huxley

74. “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”

— Buddha

75. “If you know the why, you can live any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

76. “I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.”

— Charlie Munger

77. “To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

— Confucius

78. “If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”

— Henry Ford

79. “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”

— Alan Watts

80. “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

81. “When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

— Epictetus

82. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

83. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

— Laozi

84. “There is only one time that is important – NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.”

— Leo Tolstoy

85. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”

— Chanakya

86. “It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”

— Nhat Hanh

87. “One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

88. “Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

— Henry Ford

89. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

90. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

— Louisa May Alcott

91. “Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”

— Abraham Lincoln

92. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

93. “There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.”

— Colin Powell

94. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

— Confucius

95. “Mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

— Buddha

96. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

98. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

— William Arthur Ward

99. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

100. “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ”

— Ernest Hemingway