Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Larson, Doug

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Proverb, Chinese

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Epictetus

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

Thurber, James

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

Bible

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Pindar

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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 testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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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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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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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 is learning what to overlook.

James, William