Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Basho, Matsuo

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

21.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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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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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

38.

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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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

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

45.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wise men still seek Him today.