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

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

Butler, Samuel

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.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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]

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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 always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bouton, E. S.

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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

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

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Bible

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Cato The Elder

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin