Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Garbutt, Frank

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]

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

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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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.

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Talmud, The

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

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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.

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Kraus, Karl

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.