Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Aristophanes

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

Quintilian

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

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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

Bouton, E. S.

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Talmud, The

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

Ziggy

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

Bible

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Marx, Eleanor

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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