Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

- Bouton, E. S.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cheever, John

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

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Gabirol, Ibn

11.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

12.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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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

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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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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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 person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Ward, William A.

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Quintilian

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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

44.

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

Bible

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

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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]

Bible

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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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