Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Bible

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

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Epictetus

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

Quintilian

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

Thurber, James

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

Cocteau, Jean

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Spanish

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

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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.