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 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

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bible

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

Larson, Doug

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Evangel

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

Epictetus

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

14.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 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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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

22.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

24.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

25.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

26.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cullen Hightower

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

34.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bible

38.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

39.

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

40.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.