Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bible

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

11.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

12.

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.

13.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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.

15.

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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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

Twain, Mark

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Quintilian

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Gabirol, Ibn

34.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Cullen Hightower

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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.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .