Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ziggy

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

10.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

11.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

12.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

13.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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 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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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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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

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Evans, Bergen

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Pindar

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

32.

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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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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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

40.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.