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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Blake, William

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Ziggy

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aristophanes

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Ward, William A.

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Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich