Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Maeterlinck, Maurice

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Talmud, The

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Pindar

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

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