Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Buddha

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

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

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 does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Confucius

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Thurber, James

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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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 only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Talmud, The

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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

Cato The Elder

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.