Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Socrates

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pindar

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

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

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

Cheever, John

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Thurber, James

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ward, William A.

23.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Evangel

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cato The Elder

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Aristophanes

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Ziggy

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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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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Buddha

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