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

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

Oprah Winfrey

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Talmud, The

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Buddha

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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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.

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

Bible

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Aristophanes

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis