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

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

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

Talmud, The

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Bible

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Thurber, James

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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 is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Ziggy

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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.