Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Marx, Eleanor

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Ziggy

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Epictetus

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Pindar

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

Buddha

20.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Talmud, The

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.