Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Evans, Bergen

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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

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

Cato The Elder

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Quintilian

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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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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Buddha

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Bouton, E. S.

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

44.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin