Inspirational Quotes

  • “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates
  • “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix
  • “Wisdom begins in wonder.” — Socrates
  • “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” — Voltaire
  • “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein
  • “Knowledge is power.” — Francis Bacon
  • “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.” — Socrates
  • “The only source of knowledge is experience.” — Albert Einstein
  • “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin
  • “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” — Doug Larson
  • “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
  • “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” — William Shakespeare
  • “It is not the knowledge which should be made to bend, but the tree which is to be made to bow.” — Confucius
  • “Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.” — Sophocles
  • “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” — Socrates
  • “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” — Immanuel Kant
  • “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” — Plato
  • “Wisdom outweighs any wealth.” — Sophocles
  • “Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.” — Horace
  • “The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.” — Cicero
  • “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” — Anton Chekhov
  • “Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.” — Plato
  • “Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.” — David Starr Jordan
  • “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
  • “Knowledge has a beginning but no end.” — Geeta Iyengar
  • “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein
  • “He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” — Confucius
  • “The greatest wisdom is to realize one’s lack of it.” — Zig Ziglar
  • “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” — Bruce Lee
  • “The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” — Benjamin Franklin
  • “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” — William James
  • “Knowledge is love and light and vision.” — Helen Keller
  • “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — Bertrand Russell
  • “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” — Socrates
  • “It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.” — George R.R. Martin
  • “The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.” — Socrates
  • “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” — T.S. Eliot
  • “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” — Confucius
  • “Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.” — William Wordsworth
  • “To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Confucius
  • “Wisdom is better than rubies.” — Proverbs 8:11
  • “The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.” — Lord Chesterfield
  • “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.” — Lao Tzu
  • “The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” — Claude Levi-Strauss
  • “Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” — Leonardo da Vinci
  • “Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.” — Carl Jung
  • “Wisdom begins at the end.” — Daniel Webster
  • “It is not what we know, but what we do not know; it is not what we have, but what we do not have, that is the measure of wisdom.” — C.S. Lewis
  • “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee
  • “The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” — James Madison
  • “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” — Mahatma Gandhi
  • “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” — Frank Herbert
  • “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.” — M.H. McKee
  • “Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.” — William Penn
  • “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” — Khalil Gibran
  • “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” — Albert Einstein
  • “Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.” — Will Durant
  • “Not to know at large of things remote from use, obscure and subtle, but to know that which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom.” — John Milton
  • “The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” — Laurence Sterne
  • “To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day.” — Lao Tzu
  • “It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.” — Mark Twain
  • “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” — Marilyn vos Savant
  • “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.” — Samuel Johnson
  • “The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.” — Benjamin Disraeli
  • “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” — William S. Burroughs
  • “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” — Charles Dickens
  • “The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.” — Irving Howe
  • “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.” — Plotinus
  • “Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.” — Plato
  • “The pursuit of knowledge is never-ending. The day you stop seeking knowledge is the day you stop growing.” — Brandon Travis Ciaccio
  • “True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.” — E.S. Bouton
  • “It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.” — Immanuel Kant
  • “Knowledge is not power until it is applied.” — Dale Carnegie
  • “Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.” — Unknown
  • “He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of a calm spirit.” — Proverbs 17:27
  • “The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” — Ralph W. Sockman
  • “Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” — Martin H. Fischer
  • “In youth we learn; in age we understand.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • “Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.” — Dan Brown
  • “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” — Confucius
  • “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” — George Bernard Shaw
  • “Wisdom is organized life.” — Immanuel Kant
  • “Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.” — Herbert Hoover
  • “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle
  • “A wise man never loses anything if he have himself.” — Michel de Montaigne
  • “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • “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
  • “A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” — Plato
  • “The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” — Benjamin Franklin
  • “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” — Francis Bacon
  • “A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.” — Mark Rutherford
  • “Knowledge is the life of the mind.” — Abu Bakr
  • “Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” — Zen Proverb
  • “Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.” — Guinean Proverb
  • “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell
  • “There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.” — Buddha
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