Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Marilyn vos Savant

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Cato The Elder

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

Confucius

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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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 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.

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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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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Thurber, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kraus, Karl

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

36.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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

Cullen Hightower

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

42.

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

Zenrin

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

48.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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