Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

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

Cheever, John

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Noll, Chuck

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

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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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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

Larson, Doug

41.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

43.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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

Quintilian

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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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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.