Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Proverb, Turkish

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

12.

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.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

15.

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

Bible

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

Cato The Elder

18.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Evangel

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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