Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Pindar

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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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 we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Talmud, The

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Evangel

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

Robbie Gass

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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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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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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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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

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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.

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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