Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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]

Bible

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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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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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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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bible

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

29.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

34.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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

39.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

41.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.