Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Larson, Doug

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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

Epictetus

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

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

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

Aristophanes

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

Talmud, The

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Bible

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Quintilian

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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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

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Bible

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Twain, Mark