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

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Buddha

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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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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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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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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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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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

Talmud, The

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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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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Noll, Chuck

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Robbie Gass

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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