Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

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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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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Pindar

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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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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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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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]

Bible

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Talmud, The

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.