Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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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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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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Talmud, The

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Epictetus

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.