Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

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

Bible

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Proverb, Camerounian

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Bible

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

11.

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

Thurber, James

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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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 wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Talmud, The

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Blake, 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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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]