Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Maeterlinck, Maurice

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Cullen Hightower

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Confucius

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Buddha

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

10.

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

Buddha

11.

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

Bible

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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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.

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

16.

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

17.

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

18.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

19.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Blake, William

21.

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

Bible

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

Ziggy

25.

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

Larson, Doug

26.

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

Cato The Elder

27.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Marilyn vos Savant

29.

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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

33.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Bible

36.

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

38.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

44.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

45.

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

46.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

47.

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.

48.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo