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

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

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

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Buddha

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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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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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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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Larson, Doug

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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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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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 word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Confucius

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.