Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bible

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

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

Talmud, The

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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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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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Larson, Doug

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

Talmud, The

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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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 ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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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

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Bible

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Confucius

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Aristophanes

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.