34 Best wisdom quotes about life
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom .
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing .
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom .
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears .
May you live every day of your life .
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times .
Turn your wounds into wisdom .
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 .
Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think .
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us .
Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold .
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens .
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom .
Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes .
Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy .
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom .
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom .
I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it .
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish .
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err .
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny .
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom .
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom .
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing .
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom .
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it .
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom .
It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power! .
wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good .
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful .
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers .
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling .
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us .
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death .