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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
Wisdom Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.
Wise men still seek Him today.
Bell, Dan

2.
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Buscaglia, Leo

3.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
Elizabeth, Queen

4.
Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.
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

6.
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

7.
Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

8.
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

9.
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

10.
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

11.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Clemenceau, Georges

13.
Action should culminate in wisdom.
Bhagavad Gita

14.
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

15.
The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
Birch, Frank

16.
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass

17.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates

18.
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

19.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Saroyan, William

20.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

21.
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
Proverb, Camerounian

22.
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
Butler, Samuel

23.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Plautus, Titus Maccius

24.
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

25.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Twain, Mark

26.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Chaucer, Geoffrey

27.
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

28.
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

29.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Mencken, H. L.

30.
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

31.
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
Adams, James Truslow

32.
The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]
Bible

33.
The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

34.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.
The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Noll, Chuck

37.
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

38.
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

39.
It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.
Quinault, Philippe

40.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

41.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Brecht, Bertolt

42.
Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.
Bible

43.
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
Bouton, E. S.

44.
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.
Bible

45.
What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

46.
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

47.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

49.
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

50.
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
Talmud, The


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