Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Action should culminate in wisdom.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

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

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Basho, Matsuo

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Talmud, The

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

Robbie Gass

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Pindar

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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

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

Bible

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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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

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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 is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb, Turkish

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo