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 is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Bible

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

Bible

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cullen Hightower

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Ziggy

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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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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Confucius

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

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

Evangel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 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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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Bible

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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