Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Larson, Doug

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Pindar

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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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 only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Talmud, The

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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 greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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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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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

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan