Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Boileau, Nicholas

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

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

James Boswell

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

Ziggy

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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 makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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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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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]

Bible

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

Cocteau, Jean

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Confucius

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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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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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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

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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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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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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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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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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

Talmud, The

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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.