Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

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

Epictetus

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Robbie Gass

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butler, Samuel

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Cullen Hightower

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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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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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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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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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

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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

Kraus, Karl

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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 people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben