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 is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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]

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Confucius

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

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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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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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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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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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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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

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

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

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

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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