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

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Cocteau, Jean

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Epictetus

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

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

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

11.

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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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Kraus, Karl

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

15.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

19.

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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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

21.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

22.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Ziggy

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buddha

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

28.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

31.

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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

33.

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

Evangel

34.

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

Bouton, E. S.

35.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.