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

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

Larson, Doug

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Evangel

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

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Bible

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

27.

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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Oprah Winfrey

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Robbie Gass

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Aristophanes

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