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

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Robbie Gass

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Aristophanes

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

Talmud, The

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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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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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

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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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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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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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.