Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Quintilian

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

Confucius

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Buddha

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

Evangel

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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

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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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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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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

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

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

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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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Aristophanes

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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.

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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 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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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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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Cocteau, Jean

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

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

Blake, William

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.