Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Bible

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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 swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Noll, Chuck

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Cocteau, Jean

24.

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.

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

Bouton, E. S.

32.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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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

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Cheever, John

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Blake, William

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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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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

46.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.