Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Evangel

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Cheever, John

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Turkish

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Blake, William

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bouton, E. S.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von