Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

3.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

10.

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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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

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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

16.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

17.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

20.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

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

22.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Quintilian

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Larson, Doug

34.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

35.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

37.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

40.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

41.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Oprah Winfrey

44.

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

45.

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.