Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Camerounian

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Epictetus

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

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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

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

Talmud, The

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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 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 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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Bible

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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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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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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

Cato The Elder

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

James Boswell

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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