Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Carlyle, Thomas

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Cullen Hightower

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

Aristophanes

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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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Pindar

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Talmud, The

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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 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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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Cocteau, Jean