Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Bible

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

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 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

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Talmud, The

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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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

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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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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

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

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