Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Bible

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

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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Talmud, The

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

James Boswell

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

Basho, Matsuo

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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 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 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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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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 better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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