Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Aristophanes

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

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Robbie Gass

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

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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 knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Ziggy

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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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

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Confucius

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Cheever, John

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Bible