Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bible

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bouton, E. S.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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.

11.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

12.

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

Talmud, The

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

17.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Cato The Elder

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

Epictetus

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

24.

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.

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Evangel

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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

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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

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

Bible

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.