Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Azai, Rabbi Ben

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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 not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bible

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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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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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Twain, Mark

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Thurber, James

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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

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

Bible

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

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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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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De