15+ Best Words of Wisdom Quotes in English

When you find an idea that you love, you have to go for it.

- Tim Ferriss -

Don't be afraid to take risks! If you have a great idea, don't hesitate to act on it and see where it takes you. You may not always succeed, but that's okay - as long as you're trying your best and learning from your mistakes.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

- Winston Churchill -

A diplomat is someone who can tell you what you don't want to hear in a way that you'll still appreciate. They're good at communicating difficult messages in a way that is polite and respectful. The most important qualities of a successful diplomat are patience, clarity, dignity, confidence, serenity, morality, kindness, empathy, intelligence, and logic.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

- Socrates -

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom simply means that the curiosity we have in knowing and learning new things makes us question things that we already know and are generally acceptable. It is the awareness that makes us seek the truth and attain wisdom. The willingness to open one's mind is the beginning of wisdom or perhaps knowledge. For a teacher to put interest in his students he has to wonder them about the beauty of knowledge and learning.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

- Sun Tzu -

The underlying truth, of course, is that the greatest wisdom lies within you. Once you have gained that knowledge you will understand the world in a more profound way. Knowing others, and knowing things, is all well and good but to know yourself, to know what makes you “tick” is an essential prerequisite for all greater and deeper knowledge. It is the road to enlightenment.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

- Adolf Hitler -

If you're finding yourself stuck on something—whether it's an idea, a place, a conversation, or anything else—it's helpful to remember that oftentimes, the best way to expand your mind and branch out is with words. Words can take you to places you've never been, build bridges with friends, and plenty more.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

- Napoleon Bonaparte -

It is better to do something oneself than rely on others to do it well. Many feel that they cannot rely on other people to do a job right. This saying means that if you want a job done exactly the way YOU want it, like it, need it, etc, then it is best to do it yourself.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

- William Shakespeare -

The fool is the one who thinks he knows and thinks a lot, has an opinion about everything and judges everybody. He knows himself only as of the body and mind, a separate identity. The wise man knows himself as Absolute Reality, with a childlike/fool-like mind. Acts benevolent indifferent because he is conscious of being the One Reality.

Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

- Bruce Lee -

Bruce Lee’s, “be like water, my friend” simply means to be flexible in both mind and body. It’s about not being rigid and stubborn about your beliefs, practices, and understanding, and instead, about being open-minded and able to change and adapt to the circumstances we are put into. If we can just understand the properties of this amazing element, we can live a beautiful and better life. Problems arise all the time in life, and you can try to keep your rigid shape, smashing into the problems until one of you breaks, or you can be like water and slip through the cracks.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

- Charles Dickens -

Head is considered with knowledge, understanding, experience, and what you think. The heart is considered with feelings, emotions, intuition, premonitions, and what you imagine. If you can differentiate between them, you can understand why they are dependent on each other.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

- Sigmund Freud -

Identifying our pain is the only first step; the hardest part comes in allowing ourselves to feel our pain. Only then we might find a channel to disseminate it, lest, in a vicious cycle, it comes forth later in uglier ways. When you push down unresolved feelings, it’s like a closet. You keep cramming a closet full of junk until one day it bursts open and everything falls out. That’s called a breakdown, and it’s an ugly thing.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

- Dale Carnegie -

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but t will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's goodwill. Keep calm and watch out for your first reaction. It may be AT YOUR WORST, NOT YOUR BEST. Avoid any kind of argument and leave a happy life.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

- Lao Tzu -

Talkative people are alone at the end of the time. The more you talk the sooner you exhausted. Silence is key to happiness. If you talk more then you do mistake more and more. Talkative people face many problems in their life.

A sign of wisdom: you expect the unexpected.

- Maxime Lagacé -

Expecting the unexpected means expecting that something will occur that you did not expect. It does not mean to expect what will actually occur. It is a sign of wisdom. Expecting the unexpected help people to grow up and prepare for life.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

- Ben Sweetland -

For you to help somebody or you want to save somebody in his miserable state, focus on yourself first, and grow as a person. You can't be a hero in someone else life when you can't even save yourself. Always bear in mind that self-love is important.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

- Theodore Hesburgh -

Virtue ethics judges the morality of individual actions and acts as a guiding framework for the behavior and characteristic a reasonable person should seek. People are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. They don't want to practice in real and regular life. People just show that they are practicing.