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

Cullen Hightower

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Garbutt, Frank

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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.

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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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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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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.

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Talmud, The

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Pindar

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.