Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Marilyn vos Savant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Bible

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

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Aristophanes

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Marx, Eleanor

13.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

14.

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

15.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

16.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

17.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

20.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

21.

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

23.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

24.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

25.

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

30.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

Bible

34.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Ziggy

40.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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

Cocteau, Jean

43.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Evans, Bergen

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

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.