Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Thurber, James

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Ziggy

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Bible

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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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 makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Epictetus

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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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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Garbutt, Frank

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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