Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

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

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Pindar

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Twain, Mark

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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bible

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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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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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

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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 mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

40.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus