Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Turkish

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Bible

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ziggy

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Mencken, H. L.

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Buddha