369 Wisdom Quotes (Page-2) – 31-60
31.
“The answer lies within ourselves. If we can’t find peace and happiness there, it’s not going to come from the outside.”
― Tenzin Palmo
32.
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
― Benjamin Disraeli
33.
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
― Rene Descartes
34.
“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
― George Bernard Shaw
35.
“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
― Lin Yutang
36.
“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”
― H. G. Wells
37.
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates
38.
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
― Hermann Hesse
39.
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy
40.
“Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break.”
― Jane Wells
41.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
― Mark Twain
42.
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
― George Bernard Shaw
43.
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
― David Hume
44.
“It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing things, but seeing through things.”
― Manly P. Hall
45.
“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
― Rick Riordan
46.
“Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.”
― Horace
47.
“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
― Homer
48.
“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.”
― Richard Bach
49.
“Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison
50.
“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
― Aeschylus
51.
“The wise person doesn’t ask, “What have I achieved?” but rather, “What have I contributed?”
― Marianne Williamson
52.
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
53.
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
― Bruce Lee
Wise Words by Gautama Buddha
54.
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
― Gautama Buddha
55.
“Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.”
― Gautama Buddha
56.
“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.”
― Gautama Buddha
57.
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
― Gautama Buddha
58.
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”
― Gautama Buddha
59.
“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
― Gautama Buddha
60.
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
― Gautama Buddha