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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Twain, Mark

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

Buddha

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

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

Ward, William A.

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Evans, Bergen

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Cheever, John

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.