Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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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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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

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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 end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

7.

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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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.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

10.

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

11.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Oprah Winfrey

13.

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

14.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

15.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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

19.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Quintilian

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

24.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

25.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

26.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

27.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

29.

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

Pindar

30.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

33.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

37.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

38.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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