Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Talmud, The

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Bible

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.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Talmud, The

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Aristophanes

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

32.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Epictetus

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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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

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

Robbie Gass

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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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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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]

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