Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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 doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Bible

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Pindar

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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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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.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn