Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

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

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Cato The Elder

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

James Boswell

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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

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epictetus

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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 is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De