Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Bible

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

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

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

10.

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

11.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

12.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Cato The Elder

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

Cullen Hightower

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Talmud, The

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

31.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Proverb, Camerounian

34.

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

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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

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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.

45.

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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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben