Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Thurber, James

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Evans, Bergen

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

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

Socrates

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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

Epictetus

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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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

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aristophanes

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

Evangel

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Blake, William

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Butler, Samuel

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

31.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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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 learning what to overlook.