Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

James Boswell

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

Talmud, The

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Quintilian

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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

Thurber, James

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Twain, Mark

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Bible

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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.