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 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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

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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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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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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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]

Bible

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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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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

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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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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Quintilian

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

Cheever, John

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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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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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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.