Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cocteau, Jean

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

James Boswell

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Epictetus

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

Ziggy

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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

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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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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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cheever, John

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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

Evangel

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

Pindar

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Bible

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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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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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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