Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Action should culminate in wisdom.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Wisdom

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Young, Andrew

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

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Quintilian

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

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Pindar

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

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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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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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Ziggy

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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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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Talmud, The

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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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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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