Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wisest have the most authority.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Talmud, The

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pindar

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Buddha

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Cato The Elder

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Evangel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Epictetus

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Bible

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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.