Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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]

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cheever, John

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

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

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

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Blake, William

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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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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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 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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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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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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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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 the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Bible

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Buddha

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Bible

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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 always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Cocteau, Jean

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