Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wisest have the most authority.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

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

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Cullen Hightower

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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

Bible

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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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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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 greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Zenrin

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Talmud, The

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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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