Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Cheever, John

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Talmud, The

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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

16.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Bible

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bouton, E. S.

33.

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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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

Epictetus

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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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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.