Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cato The Elder

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

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

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

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

Confucius

11.

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

Thurber, James

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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Butler, Samuel

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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.

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

19.

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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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wise men still seek Him today.