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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Epictetus

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

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

Proverb, Camerounian

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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

11.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

12.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

13.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

14.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

16.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

17.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

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

Aristophanes

19.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

20.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

21.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

22.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

23.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

25.

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

Ward, William A.

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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

27.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

28.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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

30.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

32.

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.

33.

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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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

35.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

37.

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

Cocteau, Jean

38.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

39.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

40.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cato The Elder

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

45.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.