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Action should culminate in wisdom.
- Bhagavad Gita
Wisdom Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Aurelius, Marcus

2.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.
Bible

3.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
Cheever, John

4.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Saroyan, William

5.
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles

6.
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
Proverb, Camerounian

7.
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.

8.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Blake, William

9.
Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
Fitzhenry, R. I.

10.
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

12.
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

13.
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
Proverb, African

14.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Franklin, Benjamin

15.
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

16.
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

17.
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Buscaglia, Leo

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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

21.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Gabirol, Ibn

22.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

23.
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
Evangel

24.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.
Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.
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

27.
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

28.
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

29.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell

30.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

31.
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

32.
The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
Proverb, German

33.
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar

34.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phaedrus

35.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Chaucer, Geoffrey

36.
Wise men still seek Him today.
Bell, Dan

37.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Francis of Assisi, St.

38.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Gabirol, Ibn

39.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.
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

41.
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

42.
Wise care keeps what it has gained.
Proverb, Danish

43.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Larson, Doug

44.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Clemenceau, Georges

45.
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

46.
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
Talmud, The

47.
Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

48.
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]
Bible

49.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Carlyle, Thomas

50.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius


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