Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Elizabeth, Queen

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Larson, Doug

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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

Marx, Eleanor

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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 is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Pindar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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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

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

Bible

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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

Talmud, The

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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 wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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By others faults the wise correct their own.