Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Action should culminate in wisdom.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Socrates

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

Evangel

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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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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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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Blake, William

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Bible

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Bible

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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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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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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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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The