Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Bible

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cocteau, Jean

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Bible

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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

Evans, Bergen

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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]

Bible

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

Quintilian

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Cullen Hightower

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Aristophanes

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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.

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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

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

Robbie Gass

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cheever, John

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.