Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Socrates

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Pindar

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Aristophanes

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

Robbie Gass

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Noll, Chuck