Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Wisdom

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 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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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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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

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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 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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

Bible

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 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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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Levenson, Samuel