Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Bible

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Evangel

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Talmud, The

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Bible

50.

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.