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

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

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

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

James Boswell

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

Quintilian

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Bible

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

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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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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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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

Epictetus

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bible

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

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

Talmud, The

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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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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.