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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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

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

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

James Boswell

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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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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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.