Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Cullen Hightower

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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]

Bible

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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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.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

Epictetus

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Zenrin

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Quintilian

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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 is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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No man is wise enough by himself.