Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

11.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Confucius

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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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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 does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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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

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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

Pindar

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Evangel

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Bible