Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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 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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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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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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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

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

Pindar

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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 ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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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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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Quintilian

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Young, Andrew

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell