Wise Quotes – Sayings About Wisdom

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“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”
– James Madison

“Angry people are not always wise.”
– Jane Austen

“I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dyeing my hair tonight.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.”
– Joan Rivers

“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.”
– John A. Sandford

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
– John Keats

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
– John Lennon

“No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don’t know what’s going to happen until you do it.”
– Konosuke Matsushita

“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.”
– Lao Tzu

“For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.”
– Lao Tzu

“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

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”
– Lao Tzu

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don’t help them by doing the job yourself.”
– Laurell K. Hamilton

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Music is a higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven

“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.”
– Margaret Fuller

“If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won’t either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
– Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.”
– Mark Nepo

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
– Mark Twain

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
– Mark Twain

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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