Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

By others faults the wise correct their own.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

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

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Talmud, The

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Marx, Eleanor

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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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 beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

24.

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

Talmud, The

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Blake, William

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Turkish

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Pindar

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

Evangel

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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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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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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