Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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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

2.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

3.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

4.

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

Bible

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

6.

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

7.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

10.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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

12.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

13.

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

Young, Andrew

14.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

15.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Confucius

17.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

18.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

22.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

23.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

25.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

26.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

27.

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

28.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

31.

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

Kraus, Karl

32.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

34.

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

Pindar

35.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Cullen Hightower

37.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

41.

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

42.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

43.

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

44.

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

Evangel

45.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus