Wisdom Quotes

"My father always said, ‘Don’t try to beat them. Don’t lose to them. They will lose. They will make a mistake."

- Royce Gracie, speaking about his father, Helio Gracie

"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious."

- Sun Tzu

"So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom, and if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would."

- Neil Gaiman

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

- James C. Collins

"Never miss a good chance to shut up."

- Will Rogers

"Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if they would, I do not do that thing."

- Dwight Schrute

"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."

- Henry David Thoreau

"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm."

- Sam Levenson

"If you’re blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there’s so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace."

- Oprah Winfrey

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."

- Cherokee proverb

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them."

- Laurence Binyon

"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine."

- Dwight L. Moody

"A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger."

- Debasish Mridha

"What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins but does so with ease. Hence his victories bring him neither reputation for wisdom nor credit for courage."

- Sun Tzu

"The skillful fighter puts himself into a position which makes defeat impossible and does not miss the moment to defeat the enemy."

- Sun Tzu

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

- Steve Jobs

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

- Albert Einstein

"I seek not only to follow in the footsteps of the men of old, I seek the things they sought."

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."

"Happy birthday! Each year is a chapter of wisdom in life’s grand book."

"Celebrating aging—timeless wisdom, a gift for another precious year."

"A birthday, a journey—collecting timeless wisdom with each passing year."

"Happy birthday! Every year, a new chapter of timeless wisdom begins."

"Embrace the gift of time, accumulating timeless wisdom this birthday."

"Another year older, wiser, and filled with timeless birthday wisdom."

"Happy birthday! May this year bless you with timeless, insightful moments."

"If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault and it will be given to you."

"There is no wisdom without leisure."