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

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Evangel

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

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

Ward, William A.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Bible

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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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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Epictetus

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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

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Bible

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Kraus, Karl

26.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

27.

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

Buddha

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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 are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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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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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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

Larson, Doug

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

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Young, Andrew

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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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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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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