Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Buddha

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

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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

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

Socrates

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Evangel

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

Pindar

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Blake, William

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

17.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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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

26.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Bible

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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