Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Cullen Hightower

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Quintilian

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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

Garbutt, Frank

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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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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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Bible

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Talmud, The

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Kraus, Karl

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Oprah Winfrey