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

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

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Cocteau, Jean

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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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

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Aristophanes

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.