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

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

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

Cullen Hightower

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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 greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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.

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

Talmud, The

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Cato The Elder

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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 care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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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

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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

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.