Wise Quotes

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.

A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.

Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.