Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Socrates

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

13.

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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Talmud, The

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

Basho, Matsuo

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Talmud, The

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Evangel

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

Bible

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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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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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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