Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

- Asimov, Isaac

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

27.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John