Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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.

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Bible

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

Cheever, John

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Ziggy

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Bouton, E. S.

21.

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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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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.

31.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pindar

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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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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 growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Talmud, The

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Thurber, James

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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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

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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