Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Confucius

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Buddha

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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