Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Turkish

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.

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

Thurber, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epictetus

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Young, Andrew

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Evans, Bergen

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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Talmud, The

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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 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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Cheever, John

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.