Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Bible

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

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Bible

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Quintilian

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.