Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise men still seek Him today.

- Bell, Dan

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Confucius

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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 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

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Robbie Gass

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Evangel

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.