Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Watson, Thomas J.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Evans, Bergen

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Bible

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

Thurber, James

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

Butler, Samuel

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Confucius

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.