Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Young, Andrew

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Blake, William

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

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

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

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

Proverb, Camerounian

11.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Bible

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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 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.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Socrates

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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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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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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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cullen Hightower

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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles