Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Aristophanes

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Epictetus

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cato The Elder

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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

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Quintilian

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

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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

Oprah Winfrey