Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Quintilian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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 perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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

Pindar

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Buddha

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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

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

Talmud, The

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Larson, Doug

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Confucius

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Cullen Hightower

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.