Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise men still seek Him today.

- Bell, Dan

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Buddha

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Aristophanes

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Larson, Doug

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Epictetus

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

Cato The Elder

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Talmud, The

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