Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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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 the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cato The Elder

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Buscaglia, Leo