Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Marilyn vos Savant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Epictetus

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Confucius

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Evans, Bergen

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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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