Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Levenson, Samuel

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Talmud, The

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Marilyn vos Savant

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

13.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

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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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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Confucius

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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

Evans, Bergen

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Bible

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Bible

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

Thurber, James