Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Robbie Gass

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Camerounian

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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

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

Larson, Doug

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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

Bible

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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