Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Evans, Bergen

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

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

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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Blake, William

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bible

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.