Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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.

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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

James Boswell

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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

Robbie Gass

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Evangel

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Cheever, John

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von