Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Twain, Mark

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Aristophanes

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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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

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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 wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Cullen Hightower

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Quintilian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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