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

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Evangel

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

Bible

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

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.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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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

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Confucius

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Butler, Samuel

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Pindar

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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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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

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Marx, Eleanor