Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Action should culminate in wisdom.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Thurber, James

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

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Saroyan, William

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Quintilian

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

Evangel

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

Talmud, The

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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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

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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