Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Kraus, Karl

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Young, Andrew

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

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

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

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

Bible

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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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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Evangel

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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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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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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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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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

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.