Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Ward, William A.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Epictetus

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

Talmud, The

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Ziggy

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Evangel

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Bible

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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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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