Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Butler, Samuel

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

10.

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

Aristophanes

11.

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

12.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

16.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

18.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

19.

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

20.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

21.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

22.

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

Buddha

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

25.

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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

37.

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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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

41.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Epictetus

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.