Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Talmud, The

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Pindar

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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

Cheever, John

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

33.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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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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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 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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

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

Evangel

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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Confucius

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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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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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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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo