Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Aristophanes

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Confucius

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.

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

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Quintilian

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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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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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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Larson, Doug

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

Butler, Samuel

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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.

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

Evangel

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Saroyan, William

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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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Bible

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The