Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ziggy

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

Evangel

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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]

Bible

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Thurber, James

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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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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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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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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.

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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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

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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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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.