Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Young, Andrew

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

Marx, Eleanor

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Larson, Doug

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Bible

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Talmud, The

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.