Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Saroyan, William

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Ziggy

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Aristophanes

33.

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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bouton, E. S.

46.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil