Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Butler, Samuel

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ward, William A.

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

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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

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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.

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin