Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

2.

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

3.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

4.

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

5.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

9.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

10.

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

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

12.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

15.

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

Confucius

16.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

21.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

25.

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

Basho, Matsuo

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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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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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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

30.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

31.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

34.

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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

36.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

38.

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

Butler, Samuel

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.