Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Aristophanes

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

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.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Talmud, The

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bible

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Cullen Hightower

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.