Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cato The Elder

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

James Boswell

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

Bible

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Talmud, The

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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

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

Bible

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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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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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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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 always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Quintilian

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

Confucius

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.