When it comes to experiences of life, among other things, they produce lessons and shape you into the person you are now. Inevitably, we take away something from every experience. And after going through various, often unpleasant, ones, we may start viewing the world in a different light. That might be how many of these wisdom quotes were born.
Life experiences can produce a wide variety of quotes about wisdom. The sayings of Winston Churchill come from rough stages of humanity, hardened by tough character and will. On the other hand, we have wise words by Oscar Wilde, with a dash of artistic spice added to them. These seemingly different worlds can collide yet still make sense. Even though we won’t be going through the exact scenarios these historical figures did, we can still apply their thoughts to our daily lives.
So if you’ve been struggling to find purpose or meaning, learning from paths already traveled could help. This way, we hope your journey of chasing answers will no longer look like a never-ending road. And if you arm yourself with these wisdom quotes about life, no obstacle in front of you will seem unbeatable.
Don’t wait any longer and lose yourself in this list of wisdom quotes, let them inside your heart, and you’ll be one step closer to solving life’s mysteries. Vote for your favorites, and share any sayings you found touching with those around you.
#1
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
#2
“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.” ― Abigail Van Buren
#3
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ― Mark Twain
#4
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill
#5
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
#7
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” ― Bruce Lee
#8
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell, 1984
#9
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
#10
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov
#11
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein
#12
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein
#13
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein
#14
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle
#15
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates
#16
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
#17
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ― Aristotle, Metaphysics
#18
“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” ― Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
#19
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” – Lao Tzu
#20
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde
#21
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” ― Bertrand Russell
#22
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
#23
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
#24
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” ― Confucius
#25
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” ― Voltaire
#26
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well
#27
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
#28
“We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” ― Terence McKenna
#29
“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.” ― Alan Watts
#30
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
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