Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Kraus, Karl

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Garbutt, Frank

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Talmud, The

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

Cato The Elder

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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

11.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

12.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

13.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Bible

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

19.

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

Talmud, The

20.

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

21.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

30.

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

31.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.