Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

- Azai, Rabbi Ben

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Bible

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

10.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Pindar

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Garbutt, Frank

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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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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

39.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.