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

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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

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

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

Aristophanes

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Basho, Matsuo

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Buddha

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Talmud, The

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Bible

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell