Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

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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

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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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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

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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

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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

28.

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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Socrates

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

Bible

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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]

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Ziggy

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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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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Talmud, The