Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Butler, Samuel

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bouton, E. S.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ziggy

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Cocteau, Jean

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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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

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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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 we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.