Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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]

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

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

Bible

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Talmud, The

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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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 often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Evangel

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich 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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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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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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

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

Epictetus

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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 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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn