175 Powerful Quotes for Those Who Are Seeking Wisdom

“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.” said one of the greatest authors of all time, Leo Tolstoy.

Wisdom is important in life to become successful and deal with different people. Here, I’m going to share powerful wisdom quotes on love, life, friendships, women, and more.

These quotes will inspire all who are seeking wisdom and knowledge.

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1. “Honesty is the first book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson

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2. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” Charles Dickens

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Short Powerful Wisdom Quotes

3. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” Francis Bacon

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4. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. – David Star Jordan

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5. “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” Anonymous

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Short Wisdom Quotes with Images

6. Wisdom is a quality, not an accumulation. – James Pierce

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7. “It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing things, but seeing through things.” Manly P. Hall

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Powerful Wisdom Quotes with Images

8. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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9. “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” – Oliver Holmes

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Wisdom Quotes and Images

10. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it – Albert Einstein

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11. Seeking wisdom externally is what has prevented you from finding it. – James Pierce

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Wisdom Quotes and Images

12. Wisdom: taking a step back without regrets. – Maxime Lagacé

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Wisdom Quotes and Images

13. There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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14. The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality… is the highest act of wisdom. – D.T. Suzuki

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best quotes about wisdom

15. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. – Lao Tzu

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16. The loudest voice rarely carries the most wisdom. – James Pierce

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17. If experience is the mother of wisdom, pain is the father. – Thibaut

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one liner wisdom quote

18. Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom. – Publius Syrus

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one liner wisdom quote

19. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

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one liner wisdom quote

20. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell

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one liner wisdom quote

Spiritual Wisdom Quotes That Will Lighten Your Soul

21. Events give rise to both emotions and lessons. Often we hold onto emotions and don’t learn. Wisdom is to drop emotions and move on with lessons. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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22. It’s our responsibility to work with vision, determination, and wisdom to create a happier, more peaceful world. – Dalai Lama

23. Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. – Buddha

24. Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. – Lao Tzu

25. Where there are charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. – Francis of Assisi

26. Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows. – Jack Kornfield

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Spiritual Wisdom Quotes with image

27. “Everything is within your power, and your power is within you.” ― Janice Trachtman

28. “Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact, we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate behavior. . . . Individuals and countries with power need to develop wisdom and compassion, for, without these attributes, there is a danger that the power will be used to oppress and exploit others.” ― Ravi Ravindra,

29. “To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something” – Laozi

30. “The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.” – Stormie Omartian

Inspirational Wisdom Quotes for Life

31. Sometimes the wisdom of our hearts proves to be deeper than the insight of our brains. And sometimes, the most reasonable thing is not to try to be too reasonable. – Viktor E. Frankl 

Inspirational Wisdom Quotes for Life
Inspirational Wisdom Quotes for Life

32. Everybody is full of wisdom for others, but struggle to apply for themselves.

33. Wisdom is acquired through pain, not through books. Reading helps you make sense of your mistakes faster and get more wisdom per unit of pain. Pain is the currency. Readers pay less. – Johnny Uzan

34. When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it. – Socrates

35. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard

36. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James

Inspirational Wisdom Quotes on Life
Inspirational Wisdom Quotes on Life

37. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them–that only creates sorrow. Let reality be the reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu

38. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy

39. “When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

40. “There is no passion to be found playing small–in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela

41. “Life examines those who examine their innocence.” _Varshitha Machupalli

Inspirational Wisdom Quotes about Life
Inspirational Wisdom Quotes about Life

42. “Laugh to experience the gains in your life not to experience the pain.
Laugh until the peak and let others peek” _Varshitha Machupalli

43. “Life is neither a race nor a competition,
It is a playground where people with different abilities play a different role together to bring about unrighteousness in society.” _Varshitha Machupalli

44. In the ocean of life let’s become the fishes, In the fire of life, let’s become the intensity,
In the heart of life let’s become the verses!!! _Varshitha Machupalli

45. “Life is all about expectations and articulations, one has the capability to express one’s feelings in many ways. When we fall once, we get up again and again until we stand still and focused. Life brings about many difficulties but we as human beings must overcome the inner fear and apprehension to understand life’s philosophy.” _Varshitha Machupalli

46. Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself. Osho

Famous Wisdom Quotes
Famous Wisdom Quotes

47. The wisdom of the head is all about strategy and calmness. The wisdom of the heart is all about perseverance. Be a warrior. Use them both. – Maxime Lagacé

48. In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. – Rumi

49. Wisdom isn’t about understanding things (and people); it is knowing what they can do to you. – Nassim Taleb

50. One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it. – Hermann Hesse

51. Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped. – Anthony de Mello

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Famous Wisdom Quotes and Sayings

52. True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. – Socrates

53. Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

54. Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery and the perfection of wisdom the occasion of folly. – Leonardo Da Vinci

55. The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. – Rabindranath Tagore

56. Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. – Leo Tolstoy

Famous Wisdom Quotes and Sayings
Famous Wisdom Quotes and Sayings

57. We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit from it. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

58. The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. – Lactantius

59. Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of a lack of wisdom. – Terry Pratchett

60. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

Encouraging Wisdom Quotes From the Bible

61. Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding. – Proverbs 13:13

Wisdom Quotes From the Bible
Wisdom Quotes From the Bible

62. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption. – 1 Corinthians 1:30

63. 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. – James 1:5

64. But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. – James 3:17

65. My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom have hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. – Colossians 2:2-3

66. Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. –
Proverbs 13:10

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Wisdom Quotes Bible

67. The one who gets wisdom loves life; the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper. – Proverbs 19:8

68. How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver! – Proverbs 16:16

69. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. –
Proverbs 4:7

70. Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. – James 3:13

Best Old Age and Wisdom Quotes

71. “Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.” Ron Wild

Old Age and Wisdom Quotes
Old Age and Wisdom Quotes

72. Ancient wisdom is the medicine for the modern world. – Don Howard

73. Knowledge creates noise. Understanding creates silence. Wisdom creates peace. Sven Schnieders

74. Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom. – Ram Dass

75. The definition of wisdom is focusing on what you control, letting go of what you can’t control, and recognizing the difference. – Mark Manson

76. 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. – Confucius

Old Age and Wisdom Quotes
Old Age and Wisdom Quotes

77. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

78. “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” – Arthur Wing Pinero

79. “Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.” – Abigail Van Buren

80. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” – Charles Dickens

Classic Wisdom Quotes on Love

81. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens

Wisdom Quotes for Love
Wisdom Quotes on Love

82. Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

83. “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” – Madame de Stael

84. “Nobody has ever measured — not even poets — how much love the human heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald

85. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford

86. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin

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Wisdom Quotes for Love

87. “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut

88. “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C. S. Lewis

89. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”– Lao Tzu

90. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”– Lucille Ball

Wisdom Quotes About Friends

91. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides

Wisdom Quotes About Friends
Wisdom Quotes About Friends

92. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis

93. A true friend will continue to hold you in higher and higher regard while the error of a friend will see your goodwill and newfound fondness as a basis to do and say whatever he/she wants, which is disrespectful and non-beneficial to you.” ― C. JoyBell C.

94. True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it is lost. – Charles Caleb Colton

95. A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen. – Winnie The Pooh

96. A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be. – Winnie The Pooh

Wisdom Quotes About Friends
Wisdom Quotes About Friends

97. A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. – Irish Proverb

98. A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. – Charles Darwin

99. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. – Samuel Butler

100. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

God’s and Godly Wisdom Quotes

101. “Heaven knows the difference between Sunday morning and Wednesday afternoon. God longs to speak as clearly in the workplace as He does in the sanctuary.” – Max Lucado

God's and Godly Wisdom Quotes
God’s and Godly Wisdom Quotes

102. Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. – King Solomon

103. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. – 1 Corinthians 1:25

104. To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and happiness, but to the sinner, he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. – Ecclesiastes 2:26

105. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. – Proverbs 1:7

106. For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. –
Proverbs 2:6

God's and Godly Wisdom Quotes
God’s and Godly Wisdom Quotes

107. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

108. “God doesn’t give you the people you want, he gives you the people you need. To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you the person you were meant to be.”

109. “Faith is trusting God even when you don’t understand his plan.”

110. “God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.”

Wise Quotes About Wisdom

111. “The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.” Ivan Panin

Wise Quotes About Wisdom
Wise Quotes About Wisdom

112. We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom. – Michel de Montaigne

113. Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. – Michel de Montaigne

114. It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. – Henry David Thoreau

115. Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom. – Democritus

116. It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. – Walter Lippmann

Wise Quotes About Wisdom
Wise Quotes About Wisdom

117. It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. – Mahatma Gandhi

118. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. – Albert Einstein

119. “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

120. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. – Benjamin Franklin

Inspiring Wisdom Quotes For Women

121. The sage keeps her wisdom to herself while ordinary people flaunt their knowledge. – Chuang Tzu

Inspiring Wisdom Quotes For Woman
Inspiring Wisdom Quotes For Woman

122. “She who doesn’t believe in what others believe and she who believes in what others don’t  believe is a philosopher.” _Varshitha Machupalli

123. “A wise woman knows her own place and uses her faith to go places.” ― Gift Gugu Mona

124. “A wise woman does not keep her wisdom to herself. She shares wisdom with the world because she knows that through wisdom, many lives can be transformed.” ― Gift Gugu Mona

125. “No one can fool a wise woman. She may look like a fool, but her mind is full of wisdom.” ― Gift Gugu Mona

126. “If our path calls for turbulence and hardships, know you will never be untouched by miracles. Only warriors can handle war, everyone can garden.” ― Nikki Rowe

Inspiring Wisdom Quotes For Woman
Inspiring Wisdom Quotes For Woman

127. “Where a wise woman is not valued, wisdom is lost.” ― Gift Gugu Mona

128. A wise woman has already a rite, Where she knows right from left.
She usually writes when she’s right and always leaves before she’s left.” ― Ana Claudia Antunes

129. “Reading between the lines is a lifelong quest of a truly sensual woman. Her ability to pick up what isn’t being said is the key to her mystery and wisdom.” ― Lebo Grand

130. “A wise woman knows she cannot merely rely upon her looks, in order to succeed in life. That is why, she invests in lessons that help her navigate this world.” ― Gift Gugu Mona

Inspiring Wisdom Quotes about Woman
Inspiring Wisdom Quotes About Woman

Intelligence and Wisdom Quotes

131. “Intelligence is of the mind, understanding is of the heart, wisdom is of the soul.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

Intelligence and Wisdom Quotes
Intelligence and Wisdom Quotes

132. “Intelligence on its best day is no match for wisdom on its worst day.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

133. “The world honors you for being intelligent, the universe rewards you for being wise.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

134. “The world was made for the intelligent, the universe was made for the wise.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

135. “Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.” – Doug Larson

136. They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status – but rarely for your wisdom. – Nassim Taleb

Intelligence and Wisdom Quotes
Intelligence and Wisdom Quotes

137. A sign of intelligence is the ability to recognize intelligence in others. A sign of wisdom is the ability to appreciate the wisdom of others, instead of limiting your learning to your own experience. Possessing a virtue makes it easier to see in others. – Adam Grant

138. “Knowing your strengths is intelligence; knowing your weaknesses is wisdom.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

139. “Intelligence sees things as they are; wisdom sees things as they should be.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

140. “Wisdom makes you the smartest person in the room, no matter how uneducated you are.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

141. To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Elders Wisdom Quotes
Elders Wisdom Quotes

142. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

143. Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. – Rabindranath Tagore

144. “To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” – Herman Melville

145. “The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” – H. L. Mencken

146. “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” – George Burns

Elders Wisdom Quotes
Elders Wisdom Quotes

147. “Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.” – George William Curtis

148. “The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” – George Eliot

149. “Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” – Tom Wilson

150. “By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” – Bill Vaughan

Quotes about Wisdom and Knowledge

151. Knowledge may help you win the game, but wisdom will allow you to see the games that are worth playing. James Pierce

Quotes about Wisdom and Knowledge
Quotes about Wisdom and Knowledge

152. Knowledge is overrated. Wisdom is underrated. It’s not accumulation that counts, it’s what you do with it. – Maxime Lagacé

153. Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair. – Ram Dass

154. I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things. – Friedrich Nietzsche

155. Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them. – Ram Dass

156. Knowledge divorced from justice is cunning, not wisdom. – Plato

Quotes about Wisdom and Knowledge
Quotes about Wisdom and Knowledge

157. “Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” Zen Proverb

158. Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future. – Lumbee

159. Knowledge is discovered collectively, wisdom is rediscovered individually. – Naval Ravikant

160. “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” – Oliver Holmes


Wednesday Wisdom Quotes For a Positive Day

161. Wednesday will either make you or break you. You are either on the upward trend or the downward slid to the end of the work-week. Give it all you got this Wednesday! – Catherine Pulsifer

Wednesday Wisdom Quotes
Wednesday Wisdom Quotes

162. Happy Wednesday! Give your love to all, trust in the team to which you are joined, and do not do wrong to others for your own self-gratification. – Byron Pulsifer

163. Focus on inspiring thoughts and keep positive thoughts and behavior at the forefront of your vision for Wednesday is a day to excel not to retreat from motivation to do a job well done. – Byron Pulsifer

164. Happy Wednesday! You are who you are; be happy with what you are called to do. Do not pretend to be like someone else for your gifts are unique to help lead you to success as only you can define. – Have a good day. Byron Pulsifer

165The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

166“Each morning is the open door to a new world – new vistas, new aims, new plans, new things…Wednesday morning is no less.” – Unknown

Wednesday Wisdom Quotes
Wednesday Wisdom Quotes

167“They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.” – Robert A. Heinlein

168“There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.” – John Major

169“Wednesdays will always bring smiles for the second half of the week.” –Anthony T. Hincks

170. “It’s Wednesday! I’m breathing. I’m healthy. I’m truly blessed. I’m grateful for this day.” – Unknown

171. “Elephants love Wednesday, and so will you.” – Anthony T. Hincks

Wednesday Wisdom Quotes
Wednesday Wisdom Quotes

172. Wednesday will never be lonely when it has days all around it. – Anthony T. Hincks

173. “When people refer to ‘Back in the Day,’ it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.”

174. “They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.”- Robert A. Heinlein

175. Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions. – Eckhart Tolle

Wednesday Wisdom Quotes
Wednesday Wisdom Quotes

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