Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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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 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

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

7.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

9.

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

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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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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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

14.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Cato The Elder

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

Cheever, John

23.

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 testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

27.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

28.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

29.

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

Oprah Winfrey

30.

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

Robbie Gass

31.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

33.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

34.

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

Talmud, The

35.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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