Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cullen Hightower

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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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 mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Evangel

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Bible

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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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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

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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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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.