Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Wisdom

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Cocteau, Jean

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

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

Aristophanes

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Bible

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Basho, Matsuo

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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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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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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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 wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German