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, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Ward, William A.

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

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Bible

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Aristophanes

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Buddha

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Bible

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Bible

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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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

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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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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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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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