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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Pindar

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Aristophanes

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

Cato The Elder

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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