Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Buddha

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

21.

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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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

Butler, Samuel

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bible

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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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