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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Aristophanes

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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

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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]

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Talmud, The

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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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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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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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Ziggy

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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 greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Pindar

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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]

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