Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Evangel

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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Bible

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.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Butler, Samuel

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Cheever, John

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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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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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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 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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig