Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

11.

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

12.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Garbutt, Frank

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

19.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

21.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

22.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Bible

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

Ward, William A.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

31.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

32.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

37.

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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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Zenrin

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

43.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Buddha

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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

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

Pindar

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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