Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Evangel

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

10.

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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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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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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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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

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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

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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Thurber, James

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh