Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Cheever, John

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cullen Hightower

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

James Boswell

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Thurber, James

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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 beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bible

19.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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

Pindar

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Confucius

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Aristophanes

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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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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

32.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Epictetus

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles