Get inspired by these wise words and make the very best out of your life.
Some people
want it to happen,
some wish it would
happen, others
make it happen.
-Michael Jordan
“The only way to
make sense out
of change is to
plunge into it,
move with it, and
join the dance.”
ALAN WILSON WATTS
All dreams are
within reach.
All you have to do is
keep moving
towards them.
-Viola Davis
It’s no use going
back to yesterday
because I was a
different
person then.-ALICE, ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Life is like riding
a bicycle. To keep
your balance,
you must
keep moving.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
“If you’re
walking down the
right path and
you’re willing to
keep walking,
eventually you’ll
make progress.”
BARACK OBAMA
When one door
closes, sometimes
we need to turn
the knob to
open another …
– J.A. TRAN
“We cannot solve problems with
the kind of thinking we employed
when we came up with them.”
Albert Einstein
Inspiring Wisdom Quotes That Will Move You
1. “I had read Harold Bloom’s ‘Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?’ Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.” — Amor Towles
2. “During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn’t necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.” — Nicholas Kristof
3. “India and China have
not shied away from addressing
boundary questions, have wisdom to
find a fair and mutually
acceptable solution… We have been
able to put all issues
on the table.” — Li
Keqiang
4. “Has fortune dealt you
some bad cards. Then let
wisdom make you a good
gamester.” — Francis Quarles
5. “I have no agenda
except to be funny. Neither
I or the writers profess
to offer any worldly wisdom.”
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Wisdom Quotes About Life Lessons
6. “Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That’s why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.” — Juan Gabriel
7. “Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it’s insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way.” — Sharon Salzberg
8. “Women’s strength, women’s industry,
women’s wisdom are humankind’s greatest
untapped resource. The challenge then
for U.N. Women is to
show our diverse constituencies how
this resource can be effectively
tapped in ways that benefit
us all.” — Michelle Bachelet
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9. “To suppose more than
one supreme Source of infinite
wisdom, power, and all perfections,
is to assert that there
is no supreme Being in
existence.” — Adam Clarke
10. “Wisdom finds its literary
expression in wisdom literature.” —
Paul Ricoeur
Inspirational quotes about wisdom and knowledge
11. “I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions.” — Bernie Siegel
12. “Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It’s a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way – that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction – and still trust that they’re going to come up with good answers.” — James Surowiecki
13. “Mainstream media tend to
just mouth the conventional wisdom,
to see everything through the
filter of right and left.”
— Arianna Huffington
14. “The arts, quite simply,
nourish the soul. They sustain,
comfort, inspire. There is nothing
like that exquisite moment when
you first discover the beauty
of connecting with others in
celebration of larger ideals and
shared wisdom.” — Gordon Gee
15. “Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees
and exploded the conventional wisdom
about a shared American prosperity,
exposing a group of people
so poor they didn’t have
$50 for a bus ticket
out of town. If we
want to learn something from
this disaster, the lesson ought
to be: America’s poor deserve
better than this.” — Michael
Eric Dyson
Words Of Wisdom Quotes Inspirational
16. “If elected Speaker, I
promise you that we will
have the courage to lead
the fight for our conservative
principles and make our case
to the American people. But
we will also have the
wisdom to listen to our
constituents and each other so
that we always move forward
together.” — Kevin McCarthy
17. “To profit from good
advice requires more wisdom than
to give it.” — Wilson
Mizner
18. “A cardinal rule in
budgeting and saving is to
pay yourself first. Once your
paycheck hits your account, wisdom
has it that you should
move some amount to savings
even before you pay the
bills.” — John Rampton tags:
dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
19. “Artemisinin… is a true
gift from old Chinese medicine.
But this is not the
only instance in which the
wisdom of Chinese medicine has
borne fruit.” — Tu Youyou
20. “I believe that when
an elder dies, a library
is burned: vast sums of
wisdom and knowledge are lost.
Throughout the world libraries are
ablaze with scant attention.” —
Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey
Wise Quotes – Inspirational Words of Wisdom
21. “However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
22. “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
23. “What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.” — Henry Ward Beecher
24. “While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.” — Henry Rollins
25. “Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.” — Plutarch
Wisdom Quotes About Life
26. “I don’t see the
wisdom in modern politicians that
I once saw in men
like Dean Acheson, David Bruce,
or George Marshall. In my
day, the northeastern establishment dominated
foreign policy formulation, but the
composition and distribution of our
population is very different today.”
— Henry Kissinger
27. “Where can we find
greater structural clarity than in
the wooden buildings of old?
Where else can we find
such unity of material, construction
and form? here, the wisdom
of whole generations is stored.”
— Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe
28. “It seems to me
that, in every culture, I
come across a chapter headed
‘Wisdom.’ And then I know
exactly what is going to
follow: ‘Vanity of vanities, all
is vanity.’” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
29. “One of the greatest
pieces of economic wisdom is
to know what you do
not know.” — John Kenneth
Galbraith tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
30. “God, give us grace
to accept with serenity the
things that cannot be changed,
courage to change the things
which should be changed and
the wisdom to distinguish the
one from the other.” —
Reinhold Niebuhr
Wisdom Sayings and Wisdom Quotes
31. “The wisdom of the
wise and the experience of
the ages is preserved into
perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs,
fables, folk sayings and quotations.”
— William Feather
32. “For the Holy Ghost
blesses us with optimism and
wisdom at times of challenge
that we simply cannot muster
on our own.” — Sheri
L. Dew
33. “Knowledge is a process
of piling up facts; wisdom
lies in their simplification.” —
Martin H. Fischer
34. “We do not sit
as a superlegislature to weigh
the wisdom of legislation.” —
William O. Douglas
35. “There is no knowledge,
no light, no wisdom that
you are in possession of,
but what you have received
it from some source.” —
Brigham Young
Wisdom Quotes Of The Day
36. “In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.” — Gertrude Jekyll
37. “I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.” — Missy Elliott
38. “Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.” — Samuel Smiles
