Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Talmud, The

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Bible

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

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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 wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Buddha

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De