Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

- Marcel Proust

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Quintilian

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

10.

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

11.

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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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

Cato The Elder

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

19.

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

20.

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

Talmud, The

21.

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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

25.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

26.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Basho, Matsuo

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Kraus, Karl

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

32.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

Bible

34.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

35.

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

Proverb, Turkish

36.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

38.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

41.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

43.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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