Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

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

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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

Watson, Thomas J.

11.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Saroyan, William

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

19.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Ziggy

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

26.

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

Basho, Matsuo

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

31.

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 and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Talmud, The

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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 wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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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