Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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.

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

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Confucius

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Evans, Bergen

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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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]

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

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