Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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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 care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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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 hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Socrates

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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

Talmud, The

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