Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Action should culminate in wisdom.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Socrates

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Cato The Elder

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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 always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

James Boswell

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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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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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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 wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates