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

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

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Socrates

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.

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

Ziggy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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 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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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Bible

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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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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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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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 a definition of terms.

Socrates

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Proverb, Spanish

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