Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Evans, Bergen

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

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Gabirol, Ibn

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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 the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Evangel

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Epictetus

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pindar

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De