WISDOM QUOTES

“The invariable

mark of wisdom

is to see

the miraculous

in the common.”

― Emerson

“The simple things

are also the most 

extraordinary things,

and only the wise

can see them.”

― Paulo Coelho

“Yesterday I was clever,

so I wanted to

change the world.

Today I am wise,

so I am

changing myself.”

― Rumi

“Knowledge comes,

but wisdom lingers.”

― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Knowledge speaks,

but wisdom listens”

― Jimi Hendrix

“A wise man

will make

more opportunities

than he finds.”

― Francis Bacon

“Honesty

is the first chapter

of the book Wisdom.”

― Thomas Jefferson

“Don't Gain The World

& Lose Your Soul,

Wisdom Is Better

Than Silver

Or Gold.”

― Bob Marley

“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.”

― Confucious

“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

“Wisdom

is having things

right in your life

and knowing why.”

― William Stafford