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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

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

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Buddha

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

Cheever, John

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

11.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bible

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Talmud, The

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Ziggy

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

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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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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De