Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

2.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

3.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

7.

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

Cato The Elder

8.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

9.

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

James Boswell

10.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

11.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

14.

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

Talmud, The

15.

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

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

21.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

22.

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

23.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

24.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

26.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Evans, Bergen

28.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

29.

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

30.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

32.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

35.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

36.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

37.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

38.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Confucius

45.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

46.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.