73 Wisdom Quotes
In life, we can all use as much wisdom as we can get. Let these short wisdom quotes give you thoughts to consider as to what wisdom is and how to apply it in your life.
You may also be encouraged by our collection of wisdom poems.
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To learn is more essential than the knowing, to know is deeper than the wisdom found.
Unknown, To Try Is Better
Inspirational Poems
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Go forward, press onward: Oh, live not in vain! There's wisdom, and honor, and glory to gain.
Daniel C. Colesworthy, Onward, Never Say Fail
Poems Of Encouragement
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Read the Bible - love the Bible - weary pilgrims, guileless youth; listen to its sweet instructions, words of wisdom, power, and truth
Daniel C. Colesworthy
Christian Poems
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But time is callous, wishes, myth, yet God in all his wisdom, has given us another chance before we join his kingdom.
Unknown, Granted A Wish
Poems about Grandchildren
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The Bible gives us wisdom and direction on how to pick our friends and how to treat our friends!
Catherine Pulsifer
Friendship Poems
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Though wrinkles are signs of wisdom's call, I know to make the most of life, of it all!
Catherine Pulsifer, Time Keeps Moving On
Funny Poems About Life
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Birthdays bring wisdom, for with each passing year we gain more insight into the world and ourselves.
Catherine Pulsifer
Birthday Poems
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Poems about Giving

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Wisdom reflects and ask forgiveness, kind words never die.
J.J. Thorne, Kind Words Never Die
Kindness Poems
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To the heart of love and eye of wisdom, good is the benevolent man
J. J. Thorne, Give A Helping Hand
Poems About Helping Others
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
George Washington Carver
Poems About Hope
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God is wiser far than we, and He knoweth what is best
John Imrie, A Birthday Greeting
Religious Birthday Poems
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In every experience, no matter the age grow wiser and accept what you know.
Catherine Pulsifer, Life Lessons
Poems On Life Lessons

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Build, then, wisely for tomorrow: with today thy work is done
C. W. Naylor, Life
Poems About Life
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You are older but wiser, your like a good wine - you know what you want and that is just fine!
Catherine Pulsifer, Another Birthday
Funny Birthday Poems
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With aging comes great wisdom
Julie Hebert, Old Age
Poems on Aging
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Always...be wise enough to know that you do not know everything.
Unknown, Always Be
Poems About Being Yourself
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Wisdom you have given to me to help me be the best I can be
Catherine Pulsifer, Blessed To Have You
Mom Poems
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Take advantage of those with wisdom galore, gain confidence by doing and asking more!
Catherine Pulsifer, Asking More
Poems About Confidence
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O my Lord, Open my heart, to envision the path, the path that you selected for me
Oliver Powell, Prayer: The 100 Most Powerful Morning Prayers Every Christian Needs To Know
Prayer For Today
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Having a positive attitude can help you be wise, even from our sorrows, new courage can arise.
Catherine Pulsifer, Time Flys By
Enjoy Life Poems
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A garden is an analogy to life, it teaches wisdom, far beyond strife.
Catherine Pulsifer, Garden An Analogy To Life
Poems about Gardens by Famous Poets
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Therefore, wise people don't wait and procrastinate, make every second count, now before it's too late.
Catherine Pulsifer, Make Every Second Count
Poems About Procrastination
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Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old
John McLeod, It's The Journey That's Important
Life Journey Poems
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Be quiet; don't murmur: work fairly and slow, and daily in wisdom and power you'll grow
Daniel C. Colesworthy, Be Quiet
Poems About Purpose
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A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
Walter Mosley
Quotes about Reading
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And then the big 60 arrives and we realize that we survived. We have much more wisdom now. We can see and understand how
Catherine Pulsifer, The Decades to 60
60th Birthday Poems
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Francis Prayer
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But middle age can bring....You may feel your half way there your wisdom you start to share.
Catherine Pulsifer, Middle Age
Roses Are Red Birthday Poems
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Better to be a little wise than in knowledge to abound
George McDonald, Better Things
Optimistic Poems
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Since the more that you worry the worse you must feel, is it wisdom to worry at all?
Ripley D. Sauders, Don't Worry
Motivational Poems
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A wise man's mind, as Seneca holds, is like the state of the world above the Moon, ever serene.
Robert Burton
Moon Quotes
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May you have wisdom for all your problems, and help in every time of need
C. B. Baird, May This Christmas
Christmas Blessings
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It is not only a part of the wisdom of happiness, but it is absolutely essential to the conditions of any true work in the world, to so live that one may not be too greatly affected by the attitude of other people.
Lilian Whiting
Happiness Quotes

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success
Samuel Smiles, Learn Wisdom
Graduation Poems
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My grandmother's wisdom has been an inspiration for me, teaching me that life is an incredible journey if you take the time to appreciate it.
Catherine Pulsifer
Birthday Poems For Grandma
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For birthdays come and go so quickly, bringing us more wisdom each time.
Catherine Pulsifer, Only Yesterday...
21st Birthday Poems
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True wisdom will produce a good life full of good deeds done in deep humility.
Carole Lewis
Good Poems
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Son, remember one year older brings wisdom they say!
Kate Summers, Wisdom They Say
Birthday Poems to My Son
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Abraham Lincoln
Everyday Prayers
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Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
William Stafford
Encouragement Quotes
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Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wind Quotes
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Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
Poetry About Words
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Grandparents bestow upon their grandchildren the strength and wisdom that time and experience have given them.
Unknown, Grandparents Bestow
Grandparents Poems
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
Be Thankful Quotes
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Grandpa....he knew so much, so full of wisdom
Catherine Pulsifer, An Example
Grandpa Poems
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An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ocean Quotes
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Poems have a way of sharing wisdom that can help us, it may be a verse or a line that sticks with us and we can recall just when we need a reminder!
Catherine Pulsifer
Quotes About Poetry
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Heros in our life...full of encouragement, and wisdom too. They bring a smile when we are blue.
Catherine Pulsifer, My Hero
Dad Poems
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Wisdom which is only theoretical and never put into practise is like a double rose; its color and its perfume are delightful, but it withers away and leaves no seed.
Schopenhauer
Action Quotes
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Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
Poems About Water
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Pray for wisdom and peace of mind and you will find everything else will fall in line in your life.
Catherine Pulsifer
Prayer Quotes
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Grandma, you are wise and guide me - your encouragement gives me a better way to see.
Catherine Pulsifer, Grandma, My Treasure
Thank You Grandma Poems
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While you can let the wisdom of others influence your choices, don't be influenced by peer pressure or by following the crowd - you know in your heart what choices you should and should not make.
Catherine Pulsifer, The Choices
Choices Quotes

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Books are keys to wisdom's treasure
Emilie Poulsson, Books Are
Poems About Books
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We pray for wisdom, we pray for peace, we pray that war and hatred would cease.
Catherine Pulsifer, The Coming Year
Religious New Years Poems
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Allowing time its due shows wisdom beyond capacity, and in patience learned here lies life's modesty.
Catherine Pulsifer, Time Passes
Poems About Time
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She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
Proverbs 13:26
Verses About Mothers
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Poems about Honesty
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The mind, when imbued with the lessons of wisdom, is like a charioteer; for it restrains the desires implanted in us, and brings us back to virtue.
Demophilus
Attitude Quotes
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Perverted temper kindles the tongue. Ambition leads to a fight or fray; but bravery is caution, wisdom reflects and makes no trouble to pay.
J. J. Thorne
Poems About Anger
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My brother, you are the one who is always there, you give me your wisdom and show that you care.
Catherine Pulsifer, What Would I Do
Poems For My Brother
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All our wisdom is stored in the trees.
Santosh Kalwar
Tree Poems
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Adversity is fortune's school, its lessons fill the air; there's wisdom in the babbling brooks and uplifts everywhere.
Stillman F. Kneeland, Uplifts
Poems About God
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Authority without wisdom is like an axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
Cute Quotes
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Let the beauty of age and the wisdom of time be a joy to your heart, and then share it with mine.
Greta Zwaan, Age Is Beauty
Beauty Quotes
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Some glad, bright day we'll see the wisdom of the Hand that shapes life's path for you and me.
C. C. Hassler, Life's Lessons In the Flowers
Life Lessons Quotes

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Poems contain much wisdom written from experiences that are true.
Catherine Pulsifer, Poetry Can
Poems About Poetry
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Many persons might have attained to wisdom had they not assumed that they already possessed it.
Seneca
Passion rudely attempts the tongue, but wisdom prevails and makes it meek; think twice with careful thought
J. J. Thorne
Thoughtful Quotes
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Many persons might have attained to wisdom had they not assumed that they already possessed it.
Seneca
Poems
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale
Famous Poems
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
Emerson
Food For Thought
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On life journey when we learn from our mistakes we gain wisdom.
Catherine Pulsifer
Life Journey Quotes
Wisdom Poems
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