Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise men still seek Him today.

- Bell, Dan

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Bible

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Talmud, The

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bible

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Bible

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Pindar

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.