Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Cato The Elder

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

13.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Quintilian

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

Aristophanes

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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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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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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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 is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

32.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

James Boswell

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Talmud, The

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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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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