Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Talmud, The

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

Aristophanes

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

Evans, Bergen

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Talmud, The

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Epictetus

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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 price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Cato The Elder

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 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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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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

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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