Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

James Boswell

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Talmud, The

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

Ward, William A.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

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

Bible

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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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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Evangel

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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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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Epictetus

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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