Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

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

Larson, Doug

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Quintilian

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Confucius

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Saroyan, William

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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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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

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

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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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]

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