Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, Turkish

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Confucius

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

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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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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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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