Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Aristophanes

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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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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

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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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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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Epictetus

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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