Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

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

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

10.

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

Blake, William

11.

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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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Ziggy

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Marilyn vos Savant

21.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Cato The Elder

25.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

26.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

35.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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 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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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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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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bible

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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 is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh