Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Action should culminate in wisdom.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

11.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Saroyan, William

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

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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 man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Aristophanes

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

Buddha

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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 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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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

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Pindar

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.