Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Kraus, Karl

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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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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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.

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Evans, Bergen

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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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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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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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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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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

Twain, Mark

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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