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

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Young, Andrew

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

13.

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

Garbutt, Frank

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

16.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Cato The Elder

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Proverb, Camerounian

21.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Turkish

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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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 beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Pindar

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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 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

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius