Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thurber, James

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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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.

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Evans, Bergen

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bible

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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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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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Evangel

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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 price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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 wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.