Wisdom Quotes and Sayings

God helps them that help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
Lao-Tze

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
Wayne Dyer

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.
John Maxwell

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.
Wayne Dyer

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
May-lin Soong Chiang

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
Lao Tzu

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
Glenn Clark

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin Fischer

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.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Anything truly revolutionary is created by a few who see what is true and are willing to live according to that truth; but to discover what is true demands freedom from tradition, which means freedom from all fears.
Krishnamurti

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Coleridge

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
Mahatma Ghandhi

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dale E. Turner

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
Wayne Dyer