Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Blake, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Ziggy

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Quintilian

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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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

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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.