Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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 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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cato The Elder

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe