Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Maeterlinck, Maurice

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Socrates

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

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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]

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

Talmud, The

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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]

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