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

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

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

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

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Talmud, The

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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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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Bible

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Talmud, The

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Bible

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas