Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

- Zenrin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Thurber, James

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Confucius

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

Epictetus

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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

Talmud, The

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

Evans, Bergen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.