100+ Brainy Quotes of the Day – Daily Dose of Wisdom & Inspiration

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

“To know that you do not understand is a virtue. Not to know that you do not understand is a defect.” – Lao Tzu

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

“Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon

“The wise man is not he who knows much, but he who understands what he knows.” – Zeno of Citium

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.” – Lao Tzu

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” – Augustine of Hippo

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“The fool speaks, the wise man listens.” – Unknown

“Experience is the teacher of all things.” – Julius Caesar

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.” – Albert Einstein

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“Resilience is knowing you can endure.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis

“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” – C.C. Scott

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.” – Neil Gaiman

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso

“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t think. Feel. Let the patterns emerge.” – Bruce Lee

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London

“Originality is the art of remembering what you steal.” – William Ralph Inge

“The imagination is the workshop of the mind.” – Christine Nystrom

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

“True leadership stems from individual character.” – John Wooden

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.” – Carl Jung

“Growth begins when we accept our weaknesses.” – Nathaniel Branden

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” – Carl Jung

“We do not need to change. We need to become who we already are.” – Unknown

“Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but transforming yourself.” – Marianne Williamson

“Until you make peace with who you were, you cannot become who you want to be.” – Unknown

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” – Albert Schweitzer

“There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Dream big. Start small. Act now.” – Robin Sharma

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency.” – Dwayne Johnson

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – Allen Saunders

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Søren Kierkegaard

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude.” – Viktor E. Frankl

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins

“Byronic life is short, and time is fleeting. And we do well to fill them with good deeds.” – Goethe

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.” – Terry Pratchett

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown

“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.” – Unknown

“I'm not lazy, I'm on energy-saving mode.” – Unknown

“If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments.” – Earl Wilson

“I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not sure.” – Unknown

“I yam what I yam.” – Popeye

“I don’t need therapy. I just need to scream into the void.” – Unknown

“The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Steven Wright

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo

“Love makes a short absence long, and a long absence brief.” – Jean Paul

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

“We loved with a love that was strong than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe

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

“Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” – Osho

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – William Shakespeare

“Love is the bridge between two hearts.” – Unknown

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” – Buddha

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.” – Abraham Maslow

“Wherever you are, be all there.” – Jim Elliot

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha

“Breathe. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.” – Unknown

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.” – Dr. Seuss

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” – Eddie Cantor