Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Evangel

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Bible

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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 ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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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 nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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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