Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Evangel

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

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Buddha

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Bouton, E. S.

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Blake, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Talmud, The

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Garbutt, Frank

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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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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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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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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

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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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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes