Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Robbie Gass

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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 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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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Cheever, John

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Aristophanes

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Proverb, Chinese