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

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

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

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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 is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cheever, John

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.