Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Buddha

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

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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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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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Blake, William

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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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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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Evangel

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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

Ward, William A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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