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

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

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

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Buddha

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Bouton, E. S.

22.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

Pindar

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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

Elizabeth, Queen

37.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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 only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Basho, Matsuo

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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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.

48.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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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