Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

- Collins, John Churton

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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.

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

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

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

Pindar

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

12.

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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

14.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bible

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

33.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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

Bible

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.