Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Buddha

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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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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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Confucius

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Bible

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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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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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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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.

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

Ziggy

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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