Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Talmud, The

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Mencken, H. L.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Zenrin

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

Cullen Hightower

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

10.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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 oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

17.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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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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.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

28.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

29.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

32.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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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 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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Confucius

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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 only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

42.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

44.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

45.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

48.

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

Bible

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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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel