Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

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

Socrates

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bible

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Pindar

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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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 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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

31.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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 price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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 man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De