Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

13.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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 care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Zenrin

19.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

20.

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 nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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

Thurber, James

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

26.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

27.

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

29.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Evangel

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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

36.

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

Buddha

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Marilyn vos Savant

43.

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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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

46.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Quintilian

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.