Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

- Collins, John Churton

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Cullen Hightower

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Bible

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates