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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

11.

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

12.

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

Evangel

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

James Boswell

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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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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Garbutt, Frank

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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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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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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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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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

37.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.